Applied Empathy, Michael Ventura
Applied Empathy, Michael Ventura
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Applied Empathy
Discovering the Tools to Remove Obstacles, Solve Problems, and Gain Perspective

Author: Michael Ventura

Narrator: Michael Ventura

Unabridged: 5 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/22/2018

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Michael Ventura, entrepreneur and CEO of award-winning strategy and design firm Sub Rosa, shares “how to unlock our ability to design solutions, spark innovation, and solve tough challenges with empathy at the center” (Arianna Huffington).

Having built his career working with iconic brands and institutions such as General Electric, Google, Nike, Warby Parker, and also The United Nations and the Obama Administration, Michael Ventura offers entrepreneurs and executives a radical new business book and way forward.

Empathy is not about being nice. It’s not about pity or sympathy either. It’s about understanding—your consumers, your colleagues, and yourself—and it’s a direct path to powerful leadership. As such, Applied Empathy presents real strategies, based on Sub Rosa’s design work and the popular class Ventura and his team have taught at Princeton University, on how to make lasting connections and evolve your business internally (your employees, culture, and product/services) as well as externally (your brand, consumers, and value). “The most neglected fact in business is we’re all human. Michael Ventura makes a powerful argument that empathy is the secret sauce of 21st century business. The more digital we get, the more empathy we need” (Chip Conley, New York Times bestselling author of Emotional Equation).

For leaders of all levels, this groundbreaking guide lays the foundation to establish a diverse, inventive, and driven team that can meet the challenges of today’s ever-evolving marketplace. If you want to connect to the people you work with, you have to understand them first.

About Michael Ventura

Michael Ventura is the CEO and founder of Sub Rosa, a strategy and design firm that has worked with some of the world’s largest and most important brands, organizations, and startups: from Johnson & Johnson, Pantone, and Adobe to The TED Conference, Delta Airlines, and The Daily Show. Additionally, Michael has served as a board member and advisor to a variety of organizations including Behance, The Burning Man Project, The Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, and Tribal Link Foundation. He is also a visiting lecturer at institutions such as Princeton University and the United States Military Academy at West Point. In addition to these pursuits, Michael leads a thriving indigenous medicine practice where he works with patients to help them address illness and injury of all types, on the road to better well-being. A passionate entrepreneur, he also owns and operates a globally recognized design store in New York’s West Village with his wife Caroline. Applied Empathy is his first book.


Reviews

Was definitely expecting more of this book! To read about authors company and its accomplishments was kind of interesting, but I was expecting more of the actual empathy applied to the business world - which of course didn’t happened😅 Overall, it‘s just… meh......more

Goodreads review by Tina

Michael Ventura is the Brene Brown of empathy. This wholistic approach to company culture, advertising, and personal responsibility will change—and motivate—workforces everywhere. An extremely well organized and helpful book.......more

Goodreads review by Dennis

I felt like he spent more time describing what his company did, and not enough time explaining how. Lots of reading with not a lot learned.......more