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First Look: Leadership Books for January 2024

Leading Blog

Optimal : How to Sustain Personal and Organizational Excellence Every Day by Daniel Goleman and Cary Cherniss There are moments when we achieve peak performance: An athlete plays a perfect game; a business has a quarter with once-in-a-lifetime profits. Mental agility. Pattern recognition. Systems perspective. Political savvy.

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Preview Thursday: Developing a Positive Culture Where People and Performance Thrive

Lead Change Blog

Goleman, 2007).”. Fortunately, the effect can also be reversed as research shows that working in the vicinity of a positive leader, makes you positive (Goleman, Biyatzis, McKee, 2004). Positive organizations are agile, more innovative, competitive, collaborative and productive. Our normal peripheral vision becomes reduced.

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Mastering Leadership Development: A Guide to Elevating Your Leadership Skills

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Psychologist Daniel Goleman underscores that leaders with high social intelligence are adept at building relationships and effective networks. In a world that values agility and emotional intelligence as much as traditional business acumen, these skills are no longer just desirable; they are essential.

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Bullying or Bad Boss: Bad Person, Inexperienced, Unskilled, or Cultural Artifact?

The Practical Leader

She’s put her finger on a competency Zenger Folkman calls Learning Agility. May the blogs published in this month’s issue help you to increase your learning agility. .” Bad bosses aren’t just inexperienced. Many have built up years of bad habits. We’ll look at a powerful tool to help you get that feedback.

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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

In Working with Emotional Intelligence , Daniel Goleman reports, “The leader is a key source of the organization’s emotional tone. I’ve missed only a few days in decades of work. ” Decades of research on the powerful links between leadership and emotional intelligence reinforce the energy connection.

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My 2020 Story and a Few Lessons Along the Way

QAspire

We are far more adaptable, agile and resilient than we think. Daniel Goleman on Three Kinds of Focus Leaders Need. A Few Lessons Along the Way. It was a wonderful collective learning experience for me and my family. We learned that: Adaptability is our real strength. Teachers and students adapted to online education.

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Don’t Let STEMM Leadership Be an Oxymoron

The Practical Leader

Lower ratings on Learning Agility indicate that many of the STEMM leaders don’t ask for or listen to feedback and resist making personal changes. Lower scores on Champions Change, Strategic Perspective, and Innovation show these leaders are failing to see the changes needed in their fields or organizations.