There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.

Leaders with empathy do more than sympathize with people around them: they use their knowledge to improve their companies in subtle, but important ways.

Our brain comes hard-wired with an urge to play, one that hurls us into sociability. A child's play both demands and creates its own safe space, one in which she can confront threats, fears, and dangers, but always come through whole. Play offers a child a natural way to manage feared separations or abandonment, rendering them instead opportunities for mastery and self-discovery.

The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay.

Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.

Companies in the East put a lot more emphasis on human relationships, while those from the West focus on the product, the bottom line. Westerners appear to have more of a need for achievement, while in the East there's more need for affiliation.

Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state.