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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. So how do we sustain performance, while avoiding burnout and maintaining balance?

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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

Once I found my life work and pursued career choices that really turned me on, my health miraculously improved. In Working with Emotional Intelligence , Daniel Goleman reports, “The leader is a key source of the organization’s emotional tone. When I was a kid, I didn’t enjoy school. How do you know?

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Making True Leadership Shine

Persuasive Powerhouse

But those are behaviors borne from his experiences, not traits of his career. True, Tristan West, one of the key characters in my novel Radiance , isn’t entirely likable. He’s angry, hard-drinking, self-centered and resentful, a real curmudgeon. So I started thinking: Why shouldn’t a PR guy be the hero of a novel?

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Leadership Tips

Coaching Tip

“The crux of leadership development that works is self-directed learning : intentionally developing or strengthening an aspect of who you are or who you want to be, or both.” Primal Leadership by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis & Annie McKee (Harvard Business School Press). Free Leadership Coaching Tips by subscribing at: [link].

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Team Dialog: Environment Matters

Persuasive Powerhouse

Of course, there is always the problem of room temperature. Intimate conversation will be enhanced if ambient noise is minimal: Buzzing lights, furnaces, tapping on keyboards or traffic sounds can distract and keep your team from doing their best thinking.

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Coaching Others: Short Term Pain for Long Term Gain

Persuasive Powerhouse

I teach coaching skills to groups of managers regularly; every individual executive client I have gets taught coaching skills in some way or another; and of course, I practice coaching myself (I call it “practice” on purpose).

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Note to c-suite: flaunt your learning and development | Aspire-CS

Persuasive Powerhouse

Bosses on training courses or encouraging people to undertake learning is not enough – we all have that ‘what’s in it for me’ and being good or better at a job I do anyway does not always cut it. Kirk Baumann Director of Career Connections SIFE USA Blog: [link] Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.