Introducing SAM Staff Picks: Articles and resources the SAM team loves and recommends. As our team shares insights and fantastic resources with one another, we'll pass them along to you!

For our inaugural SAM Staff Pick, SAM Principal JJ Colburn recommends this new Forbes article, “Empathy Is The Most Important Leadership Skill According To Research,” which notes that "Great leadership requires a fine mix of all kinds of skills to create the conditions for engagement, happiness and performance, and empathy tops the list of what leaders must get right."

We’re proud to celebrate practicing empathy as one of the SAM core values, and hope you gain insight from this Staff Pick as to why empathy is a key value for association staff teams. Read more here.