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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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New Year’s Leadership Development Goals 2017 Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

For many leaders, it’s a time to reflect on accomplishments for the past year and establish goals for the upcoming New Year. It’s also a good time to set leadership development goals, either as part of a formal development planning process, or just because it’s a proven way to continuously improve as a leader. Delegate more.

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Why Teams Often Don’t Work and How to Build Them

The Practical Leader

In Working with Emotional Intelligence , Daniel Goleman, reports, “a study by the Center for Creative Leadership of top American and European executives whose careers derailed, the inability to build and lead a team was one of the most common reasons for failure.” You are not using all your strength,” the scout replied.

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Too Much Information (TMI) Factor

Coaching Tip

From teachers at school encouraging students to share the workload on a group project to parents helping their kids divide up toys, sharing is one of life's first lessons. Motivation : A passion to work for reasons that go beyond money or status; a propensity to pursue goals with energy and persistence.

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Don’t Let STEMM Leadership Be an Oxymoron

The Practical Leader

In projects where I am not the leader or where timing isn’t tight, this isn’t insurmountable. These leaders often realize they’re typical of many technical team and project leaders who were promoted for their technical skills, experience, and ability to get things done, not their people leadership or “ soft skills.”

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Reality Checks Leaders Must Give Themselves in 2016 (Part One)

Lead Change Blog

If your geeked-up project team along for the ride doesn’t know what direction they’re headed or why they’re being steered in that direction, then you need to stop, put that bus in reverse, park, get everyone off and start over. Finally, you need good bus-driving skills. The best leaders never stop learning and growing.

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7 Steps To Foster Emotional Intelligence In Your Team

Tanveer Naseer

When Daniel Goleman released “Emotional Intelligence” in 1995, did anyone think that this best-selling book would transform the role of leadership? After selling more than 5,000,000 copies and being dubbed “a revolutionary, paradigm-shattering idea” by the Harvard Business Review, it’s clear that Goleman struck a chord with business leaders.