by Jackie Acho | Jul 5, 2014 | CEO, Changemaker, Empathy, Feminist revolution, Innovation with a soul, Motherhood, Mothers, Parenting, Uncategorized, Women in Leadership, Work Family Balance
Thank you Indra Nooyi, President and CEO of PepsiCo, for your refreshingly brutal honesty about the tradeoffs between business leadership and parenting. “You know, you have to cope, because you die with guilt. You just die with guilt. My observation is that the...
by Jackie Acho | Jun 28, 2014 | Creative disruption, Disrupters, Entrepreneurship, Innovation with a conscience, Innovation with a soul, Intrapreneurship, Uncategorized
What is “innovation with soul” vs simply a disruption of the status quo? Do you know it when you see it? Does our society inspire, support, and exalt it as we should? Consider: The new MIT Technology Review: “Hacking the Soul.” In it,...
by Jackie Acho | May 17, 2014 | Early childhood, Intrapreneurship, Motherhood, Parenting, Uncategorized, Women in Leadership, Work Family Balance
Barbara Walters is using her megaphone to tell us something important. Can we hear her? Is she breaking through our armor of modern culture and personal regret to pierce our hearts? Does she fully realize how important it is and why now is the right time to...
by Jackie Acho | Dec 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
http://www.upworthy.com/if-you-thought-someone-couldnt-explain-empathy-with-a-dry-erase-marker-youre-wrong Jeremy Rifkin, best selling author and economist, describes the evolution of the human brain, why empathy is our natural state, and how our current systems stunt...
by Jackie Acho | Dec 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
Whether you are Catholic or not, Pope Francis has your attention, doesn’t he? As Peggy Noonan pointed out in this morning’s Wall Street Journal, he is showing us a new way, from the top down, and it’s a surprise. We’re not used to seeing this kind,...
by Jackie Acho | Nov 21, 2013 | Empathy, Evil, Uncategorized
Sometimes, when we talk about empathy, we hear: “empathizing is fine and dandy with good-hearted people, but what about the people who are really evil? What should we do with them?” Important question. To answer it, I want to share a story – parable really – from...
