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Empathy (HBR Emotional Intelligence)
Harvard Business Review · 2020
🎙 Narrated by Daniel Henning and Rachel Perry (Gildan Media, 2020)
72/100
👍 Worth It
This is the strongest of the HBR EQ anthologies here, mainly because it includes work from Daniel Goleman himself, the researcher who put emotional intelligence on the map, and it's honest enough to cover both the benefits and the limits of empathy at work. It's still a short, essay-format listen rather than a deep single narrative, but the dual narration is clean and easy to follow.
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🎙 Narration: good Dual narrators (Henning and Perry), consistent with the series' multi-author anthology format.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety90
Substance / usefulness70
Craft & writing70
Originality58
Evidence & accuracy80
Hype vs delivers75
Age-fit85
Human-eye read75
Penny’s verdict72
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