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4 Basic Skills of Emotional Intelligence that Can Make or Break Your Career

Women on Business

Either way, emotional intelligence can affect your career. John Keyser of Common Sense Leadership defines emotional intelligence on The Glass Hammer blog as thatsomethingwithin us that helps us sense how we feel, enables us to sympathize with others, and gives us the ability to listen to other people when they need it.

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Best Jobs for Women in 2012, Stress-Free Management Tips, Victoria’s Secret’s Human Trafficking Problem

Women on Business

4 Principles of Stress-Free Management. Want to learn how to run your business without all the stress? Click the link above to read 4 key tips for stress-free management from Rene Shimada Siegel of Inc.com. The Glass Hammer shares the story of Karen Wimbish whose career soared after her children had grown.

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Top Down Leadership Does Work, If You’re Stuck in the Industrial Age

Lead Change Blog

Here’s where it gets sketchy… When left to their own devices under stress, these hammer-dropping leaders will lack the emotional intelligence to influence those they lead. So it does work. It assumes a kind of superiority over their leadership role, where they indiscriminately use it to gain power and prestige.

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The Right Kind of Stress Can Bond Your Team Together

Harvard Business Review

” During the first half of the documentary, we examined the NFL to see how people create happiness in an organization where the average career is 3.3 One of those conclusions was that stress actually made people feel more bonded to their organizations. You read that right: Stress made people want to stay with their organizations.

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Have You Earned the Right to Lead? Ten Deeply Destructive Mistakes That Suggest the Answer Is No (and How to Stop Making Them)

Strategy Driven

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. In other cases, they never learned these fundamentals or mastered them earlier in their career.

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A Great Negotiator’s Essential Advice

Harvard Business Review

During his remarkable career, described in detail here , Koh played central roles in some of the most complex international negotiations ever held. Koh stresses the importance of negotiating both with your head and your heart; connect emotionally with your counterparts and make airtight arguments.

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