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The ROLE of Emotional Intelligence in Effective Leadership Today

The Center For Leadership Studies

Take in these wise words from HBR’s 2002 article “ Leading in Times of Trauma ” 2 : “You can’t eliminate such suffering, nor can you ask people to check their emotions at the door. Targets and goals that were adjusted now loom large as year-end approaches. But you can use your leadership to begin the healing process. MANAGE WORK.

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How to Build ROPE Teams in Sales Organizations

Leading Blog

Teams have also played a central role in my life by ensuring that I received the support needed to achieve two cherished goals: leading sales organizations at several of the nation’s largest technology firms and climbing the Seven Summits, the highest peaks on each of the seven continents.

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Just for Entrepreneurs: How to Choose the Right Financial Adviser

Strategy Driven

With the right person to watch your financial back, you’ll have the freedom to focus on what really matters to you: your family, your goals, and your company. About the Author. He dove into entrepreneurship to make a bigger impact on people’s lives.

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Social Media Demystified

N2Growth Blog

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. If you find all the noise around social media to be confusing, rest assured that you’re not alone.

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Why Do Corporations Need A Single Purpose?

Harvard Business Review

As the Harvard Business School's Michael Jensen put the argument in a 2002 article , "Any organization must have a single-valued objective as a precursor to purposeful or rational behavior. Was your only goal to minimize time spent (in which case you skipped lunch) or to maximize time spent (in which case you are still eating)?

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How Chinese Subsidies Changed the World

Harvard Business Review

It is no coincidence that this upheaval in the Chinese solar industry is occurring at a time when the central government''s subsidies that had financed the industry''s explosive expansion have declined even as problems in the global solar-panel market have soared. and European steel. to become the world''s largest paper producer.

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How's That Shareholdery-Valuey Stuff Working Out for Ya?

Harvard Business Review

They're a metric, not a goal. That's because there's little legal or historical justification for making shareholder wealth maximization the goal of the corporation (Stout's 2002 Southern California Law Review article, " Bad and Not-So-Bad Arguments for Shareholder Primacy ," is the best summary of the evidence on this).