Dr. Judith Landau and Daria Tolstoy

5 compassionate strategies any leader can use to to combat family challenges

Drama at home can derail any leader in his or her effort to be present, aware, selfless, and compassionate at work and in life.

Take the following two case studies, for example.

A congresswoman—working on key legislation—learns that her drug-addicted brother has conned their elderly father into loaning him yet another sum. Or, the CEO—closing a deal while on a business trip—learns that his 11-year old son used a hammer to destroy the kitchen countertops and now threatens his mother, because she confiscated the video game controls and sweets.