Social Media and the Currency of Empathy

by Jackie Acho | Feb 24, 2013 | Uncategorized

What would you do if not one but two of your beloved friends were diagnosed with leukemia, each with 1 in 20,000 odds of finding a bone marrow donor who could save their lives? This is not a theoretical example. Recently in a Case Western Reserve University Masters of...

The Innovator’s Empathy

by Jackie Acho | Feb 20, 2013 | Uncategorized

Wonderful. “When I have my interview with God at the end of my life, he’s not going to ask how high I went in anybody’s org chart or how much money I left behind in the bank…..I realized that the way God will measure my life is the individual people whose lives I...

Independent Work is (Only) Part of the Answer

by Jackie Acho | Feb 19, 2013 | Uncategorized

On HBR Blog Network, Whitney Johnson writes: Independent Work May be Inevitable http://blogs.hbr.org/johnson/2013/02/independent-work-may-be-inevit.html Absolutely. Independent work is inevitable (and a huge blessing) for some of the most talented people in our...

“I ‘Get’ You”…Professionally

by Jackie Acho | Feb 15, 2013 | Uncategorized

Marvin Bower, from McKinsey.com http://www.mckinsey.com/locations/Knowledge_Network/Our_People_and_Values/Our_Culture.aspx World-class professional development is key to the second part of the framework suggested in this blog (1. vision, 2. can I grow here?, 3. being...