There is a very disturbing trend that I am noticing these days. This trend that compassionate leadership and empathy does not work , when one wants to get things done the soft approach doesn't work. This belief is based on two assumptions: 1) That being compassionate means being "nice". and based on this false assumption 2) That being compassionate enables bad behavior and doesn't work. This is leading people to suppress/ repress their needs or not speak up , when someone is

When a friend calls to me from the road And slows his horse to a meaning walk, I don’t stand still and look around On all the hills I haven’t hoed, And shout from where I am, What is it? No, not as there is a time to talk. I thrust my hoe in the mellow ground, Blade-end up and five feet tall, And plod: I go up to the stone wall For a friendly visit.   ~Robert Frost   Accompaniment is the act of walking with another person. The root of the word accompaniment is the Latin   ad