Book Review: Awakening compassion at work: The quiet power that elevates people and organizations

Abstract

Awakening Compassion at Work: The Quiet Power That Elevates People and Organizations by Monica C. Worline and Jane E. Dutton is incredibly relevant for a time such as this. The simultaneous national traumas of COVID-19 and continued systemic racial injustice during 2020 have amplified issues of pain and suffering that already existed in our culture and institutions. The timing of this publication is apt, though it was completed before we knew of a coming pandemic. Such relevance makes it doubly powerful, as Worline and Dutton (2017) speak to the suffering we are currently experiencing. Still, their work was just as relevant before the pandemic and will continue to guide us in the future.