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Making Teams Work: What’s Your Type and Decision Vision?

The Practical Leader

In Working with Emotional Intelligence , Daniel Goleman reports on a study by the Center for Creative Leadership of top American and European leaders whose careers derailed, “the inability to build and lead a team was one of the most common reasons for failure.” ” Good managers foster teamwork.

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Emotions at Work: How Soft Skills Produce Hard Results

The Practical Leader

In their seminal book, Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence , Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee explain the book title by pointing to emotional impact as being at the very core of leadership. When we try to explain why they are so effective, we speak of strategy, vision, or powerful ideas.

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

The Practical Leader

Organizational culture is also a key factor in levels of employee engagement, extra effort, innovation, morale, and teamwork. Change management processes create more rigidity and less agility. “Magnet cultures” attract and retain the best people. Meeting frequency and processes follow same old routines. ” Yikes!

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Thoughts That Make You Go Hmmm on…Partnering not Patronizing

The Practical Leader

But the truth is that relinquishing authority and giving employees considerable autonomy can boost innovation and success at knowledge firms, even during crises. “The very essence in all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate. The mind that can do that has a powerful leverage in this human world.”

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LeadershipNow 140: October 2011 Compilation

Leading Blog

6 Reasons You Don’t Dream Big Enough | Time Management Ninja. Bill_George Another powerful message from Tom Friedman. We would be well advised to focus on genuine innovation & job creation. The Must-Have Leadership Skill - Daniel Goleman - HBR. Bill_George : Remembering the Greatest Innovator of the Past Fifty Years.

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.”

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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

Some managers will complain about a declining work ethic. When we look at 360 assessments or engagement surveys, it’s clear that a more accurate response to these managers is; nobody wants to work for you. Brand management is an inside job. External brand management is multiplied or minimized by workplace culture.

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