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The ROLE of Emotional Intelligence in Effective Leadership Today

The Center For Leadership Studies

Take in these wise words from HBR’s 2002 article “ Leading in Times of Trauma ” 2 : “You can’t eliminate such suffering, nor can you ask people to check their emotions at the door. But you can use your leadership to begin the healing process. The EQ Edge: Emotional Intelligence and Your Success. Jossey-Bass; 2011:30. Harvard Business Review.

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How to Build ROPE Teams in Sales Organizations

Leading Blog

And then I put those lessons to work in my own business and climbing careers. Our Inside ROPE teams were comprised of colleagues in our company’s marketing, accounting, finance, engineering, support, purchasing, and other functional units. As a sales leader, I was responsible for assembling both “Inside” and “Outside” ROPE teams.

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Social Media Demystified

N2Growth Blog

Blogging since 2002, being actively involved in digital marketing since the early 90′s, and being online since the days of the ARPANET I have a bit of history with most things digital. If you find all the noise around social media to be confusing, rest assured that you’re not alone.

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Why Do Corporations Need A Single Purpose?

Harvard Business Review

As the Harvard Business School's Michael Jensen put the argument in a 2002 article , "Any organization must have a single-valued objective as a precursor to purposeful or rational behavior. Most human projects, from eating lunch, to buying a house, choosing a career, and setting life goals, measure success along many dimensions.

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Serving on Boards Helps Executives Get Promoted

Harvard Business Review

More than 25 years ago, William Sahlman wrote the HBR article “Why Sane People Shouldn’t Serve on Public Boards,” in which he compared serving on a board to driving without a seatbelt, that it was just too risky—to their time, reputations, and finances—for too little reward. ” Similarly, Sempra CEO Debra L.

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Finding jobs for people with disabilities

HR Digest

Job seekers can also find links to relevant upcoming events, such as virtual career fairs specifically geared toward job hunters with disabilities. Founded in 2002, disABLEDperson is a charitable organization that was created to increase the disability employment rate. DJE contains over 750 different job titles in their database.

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How Economics PhDs Took Over the Federal Reserve

Harvard Business Review

Obama also mentioned Donald Kohn (PhD, Michigan, and a career at the Fed) as a possibility, and the name of Roger Ferguson (PhD, Harvard, and a private sector career plus a past stint as Fed vice chairman) came up a few times in journalists’ speculations. But a career professor? pretty much ever since.

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