There are some really insightful people out there.
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Dame Minouche Shafik, director of the London School of Economics, said this: “In the past jobs were about muscles, now they’re about brains, in the future they’ll be about heart.”
This is at a time when economic demands are seeking to remove the time for heart from jobs; when we have nurse-to-patient ratios based on profit tables, not compassion tables.
I love this thought; because profit has become the driving market force the one thing that will suddenly become invaluable is the thing you can’t price – heart, empathy, compassion, attention, time. That will be the X factor people rush to.
How do we give our children heart? A great starting place is the one who taught, “Love others as you love yourself, this sums up the law and the prophets”.
Paul Clark’s musings can be heard on radio across Australia and at atthetop.org.au.
