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JUNE 13, 2011

Have more highly-developed emotional intelligence 4. One man’s opinion (Part One), women tend to be better managers in business because they 1. Ask more and better questions 2. Listen better 3. Are much less inclined to hold grudges 5. Are more interested in influence than in control 6. Have more respect for their and others’ [.].

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MARCH 19, 2013

It’s Always Personal: Navigating Emotion in the New Workplace Anne Kreamer Random House (2012) How and why “expression of emotion in the workplace will become more acceptable” The title of this review was excerpted from one of Daniel Goleman’s most important books, Emotional Intelligence, in which he observes, “What’s changing is how we are socialized (..)

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

Bob''s blog entries Abraham Lincoln Angela Ahrendts BBC Radio 4’s Four Thought Bibliomotion Bill Genge of Ketchum Burberry by Bob Morris Chief Belief Officer Dan Goleman defining characteristics of a Buoyant Leader George Washington Jack Dempsey: “Champions get up when they can’t” Johnson and Johnson Kevin Allen: Second interview L''Oreal Lowe Worldwide (..)

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FEBRUARY 22, 2015

She has coached leaders, delivered leadership, coaching and emotional intelligence programs, and spoken at conferences for clients […]. She understands organizational cultures, what blocks communication and innovation, and what is needed to bring people together for better results.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2015

She has coached leaders, delivered leadership, coaching and emotional intelligence programs, and spoken at conferences for […]. She understands organizational cultures, what blocks communication and innovation, and what is needed to bring people together for better results.

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OCTOBER 12, 2013

Tom Davenport (collective judgment) Lao Tzu Peter Senge (organizational learning) Robert Greenleaf (servant leadership) St.

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JANUARY 22, 2013

I have just learned about a new series of DVD programs, produced by More Than Sound, and hosted by Daniel Goleman. The video collection also includes a bonus interview with Peter Senge, Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Sustainability at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

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JANUARY 25, 2013

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Daniel Goleman and featured by LinkedIn. * * * Where we want to be on the Yerkes-Dodson arc is the zone of optimal performance, known as “flow” in the research of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi [pronounced cheek-sent-me-high] at the University of Chicago. Flow represents a peak of [.].

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JULY 20, 2011

Here is another valuable Management Tip of the Day from Harvard Business Review. To sign up for a free subscription to any/all HBR newsletters, please click here. Every leader faces a share of irritating screw-ups and minor setbacks. In response to those annoyances, some leaders get irritable and stressed out. Others keep on moving. [.].

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APRIL 17, 2011

Here is an article written by Kimberly Weisul for BNET, The CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. * * * It happens all too often: Put a bunch of really smart people in [.].

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JULY 9, 2011

Here is an article written by Travis Bradberry for Talent Management magazine in which he recommends four steps to manage workplace arguments. To check out all the resources and sign up for a free subscription to the TM and Chief Learning Officer magazines published by MedfiaTec, please click here. * * * Arguments, disagreements and [.].

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JANUARY 20, 2013

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS A Technique for Producing Ideas: The Simple, Five-Step Formula Anyone Can Use to Be More Creative in Business and in Life! James Webb Young HBR Guide to Better Business Writing Bryan A. Garner Know What You [.].

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FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Hostage at the Table: How Leaders Can Overcome Conflict, Influence Others, and Raise Performance George Kohlrieser Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2006) How to avoid becoming or remaining a “hostage” to self-defeating expectations of you The title of this review was suggested by Ernest Becker’s key insight in his last book, Denial of (..)

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FEBRUARY 6, 2013

A 2012 re-enactment of the Battle of Shiloh as captured by a pinhole camera in Michie, Tenn. Such a camera has no lens, viewfinder or shutter — just a pinhole at the front and film at the back. Images can be soft and require long exposures. More photographs are at civilwar150pinholeproject.com.No retouching or Photoshop processes [.].

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Building Better Teams Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How and why some teams “shoot out the lights”…and most don’t Those who aspire to help create and then lead create teams that deliver high-impact results will find the material in this HBR book invaluable. It is one of the volumes [.].

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JUNE 2, 2011

Flying Without a Net: Turn Fear of Change into Fuel for Success Thomas J. DeLong Harvard Business Review Press (2011) A new model for anxiety management by “high-need-for-achievement professionals” In the Preface, Thomas J.

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AUGUST 16, 2011

Reinventing the Wheel: The Science of Creating Lifetime Customers Chris Zane Ben Bella Books (2011) How to establish and then sustain long-term (if not lifetime) customer relationships What we have in this book is a personal account by the founder and CEO of Zane’s Cycles. It began when Chris Zane was 12 and repairing bikes [.].

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AUGUST 24, 2011

The Power of Professionalism: The Seven Mind-Sets That Drive Performance and Build Trust Bill Wiersma Ravel Media (2011) An exceptional resource for anyone who openly declares and then fulfills a total commitment to excellence (however defined) I selected the title for this review of Bill Wiersma’s book after some research on the etymology of (..)

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DECEMBER 2, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by John Beeson for the Harvard Business Review blog. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * Many companies extol the value of work-life balance for their [.].

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MARCH 18, 2011

Ten Steps Ahead: What Separates Successful Business Visionaries from the Rest of Us Erik Calonius Portfolio/Penguin Group (2011) Dreamers think about it…visionaries see it and then make it happen, at whatever cost The material in Ten Steps Ahead is based on what Erik Calonius learned during his research (including interviews of various business visionaries) (..)

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MARCH 5, 2011

HBR’s 10 Must Reads: On Managing People Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) Why and how to manage yourself so that you can then manage others effectively This volume is one of several in a new series of anthologies of articles that initially appeared in the Harvard Business Review, in this instance from 1980 [.].

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APRIL 29, 2011

We seem to live in an age of instant gratification during which the average attention span resembles a strobe light blink and most people are only interested in (often obsessed with) the latest, “the best,” what’s new, the biggest, the fastest, what “they” recommend, etc. It was a 12th century French Neo-Platonist philosopher, Bernard of [.].

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