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

The Practical Leader

Participants text/e-mail, take phone calls, and wander in and out of meetings. Participants cut each other off and engage in side conversations. How do your meeting participants feel? How much diversity is encouraged? Are there often two distinct groups: active participants and quiet spectators? Who attends them?

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There’s More to Life than Logic

Lead Change Blog

” ~Daniel Goleman, psychologist and author. I couldn’t be a willing participant to the absence of heart in the workplace. To meet the promise of diversity of thought, opinion, perspective, and experience, workplaces must appreciate both logic and emotion. These are the two winds that allow a leader to soar.”

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True North Groups: A Conversation With Bill George

Harvard Business Review

The big difference with True North Groups is that they provide forums for diverse sets of people to share highly personal issues and beliefs without requiring any specific affinity like chemical dependency or religious belief.

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The Missing Leadership Competency

N2Growth Blog

Meeting Participation. Valuing Diversity. According to Daniel Goleman in a Harvard Business Review article, The Must Have Leadership Skill , he believes emotional intelligence trumps all the other skills. Managing Work (Includes Time Management). Meeting Leadership. Negotiation. Planning and Organizing. Risk Taking.