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For Better or Worse: Meetings Are a Hologram of Organizational Culture

The Practical Leader

How much diversity is encouraged? In Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis & Annie McKee write, “in the last few decades much research has proven the superiority of group decision making over that of even the brightest individual in the group. Look at your meetings.

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People Skills Are Hard Skills - More Than You Know

Building Personal Strength

One intellectual movement, called “emotional intelligence,” introduced by Daniel Goleman over 15 years ago, shined a spotlight on people skills. Video production companies treat only a few of the essential people skills, and their approach seems mostly to entertain and motivate, not to teach how.

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