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There's a tension in workplaces today between showing empathy and exercising authority, but these things aren't "mutually exclusive", says relationship expert Esther Perel.

Trends that emerge in the parent-child relationship are often reflected in other relationships, such as teacher-student, and employee-manager, Perel told Culture Amp's Culture First Global Conference last week.

"There was a generation of parents before that were often very disciplinarian, and we taught them to become more relational and more empathic. Now, we have a generation of people that have been raised with a lot of this empathy," but they struggle to exercise authority, she explains...