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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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7 Skills for Becoming An Emotionally Intelligent Leader

General Leadership

Daniel Goleman. Leadership success in one’s career and life requires more than just good technical skills, intelligence, toughness, determination, and vision. Emotional intelligence as a concept entered the mainstream in the mid-1990’s by Daniel Goleman in his book Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ.

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Mastering Leadership Development: A Guide to Elevating Your Leadership Skills

CO2

This guide aims to be an invaluable resource for professionals striving for excellence in leadership and looking for skills enhancement. Leadership Coaching: Influencing Behavior Change, Social Intelligence, Problem-Solving Leadership coaching stands at the forefront of modern leadership development and skills enhancement.

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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.” That takes leadership skill. Strong team leadership skills.

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3 Critical Skills of Effective Leaders.

Rich Gee Group

Great leaders translate vision into decisive action — a skill that’s especially vital in tough times. But what are those skills? The most successful leaders are those with the best people skills, especially during the most difficult circumstances. The post 3 Critical Skills of Effective Leaders.

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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. The post Emotions at Work: How Soft Skills Produce Hard Results appeared first on The Clemmer Group.

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20 Articles to Help Leaders Navigate the COVID 19 Crisis

Great Leadership By Dan

4 Leadership Skills for Crisis Management (Daniel Goleman, using your emotional intelligence) 4. Crisis Management: The Overlooked Leadership Skill (CFO) 9. Then start doing those things today! Focus On Trust: Successful Leadership In Times Of Crisis.(Forbes) Forbes) 2. 6 Ways You Can Show True Leadership During a Crisis (Inc.)

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