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Smarten Up: Hone Your EQ Edge

The Practical Leader

Further, this immersion in the technology occurs in the formative years of a person’s higher education and career, when most patterns of social and emotional demeanor are set into personality traits.” Harvey’s opening lines define the essence of EI; “The ancient Greeks were quite aware of the power of emotions.

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45 Career Advice Experts Offer Career Success Secrets

Miles Anthony Smith

45 Career Advice Experts Share Their Blueprint for Career Success (Plus Leaderboard)​ Does your career seem to be a struggle at times? It’s why I wrote my book Why Career Advice Sucks™ … to share the stories of my own career success and failures and help you grow your career more quickly.

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Your Success Key to Maximizing Potential and Improving Performance

Lead Change Blog

In her bestselling book Mindset –The New Psychology of Success: How We Can Learn to Fulfill Our Potential (Ballantine Books, 2007), author and Stanford professor, Carol S. Always Make Your Cooperation Greater Than Your Status. Dweck, Ph.D., compares and contrasts what she calls a “fixed-mindset” with that of a “growth-mindset.”

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Authenticity: Beyond Leadership Doing to Being

The Practical Leader

Neuroscientist and Emotional Intelligence author, Robert Cooper, made several trips to Tibet as part of his research on the inner side of leadership. He quotes a wise elder who became a mentor and guide, “It is from the heart.” ” He touched his palm to his chest. “In Tibet, we call it authentic presence.

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How to Use Body Language and Words for Maximum Effect

Skip Prichard

Enter Greg Harley, former US ARMY Interrogator, Body Language Instructor, and author of 10 books on body language and behavior. Their newest book, Get People to Do What You Want: How to Use Body Language and Words for Maximum Effect , hits on some of the questions I always ask. “If A big focus of your book is also words.

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Simplify Leadership and Focus on What’s Essential

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Competitive and cooperative. Know Them Until You Care: Get to know the career desires, goals, and aspirations of each of your people. Leaders open doors. His latest book Leaders Open Doors focuses on how leaders create growth through opportunity. Guest Post Bill Treasurer Leaders Open Doors'

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Leading for Others

Great Leadership By Dan

The challenge is that it’s not a natural act for male white leaders to open doors for women, blacks, other nonwhites, people with disabilities, or homosexuals. History suggests that women will not be able to fully dismantle the ceiling by sheer force of will and talent without the active contribution and cooperation of male leaders.

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