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How Leaders Can Develop Their Skills With One Simple Habit

Tanveer Naseer

In fact, research in neuroscience suggests that you can transform simple, daily activities – like brushing your teeth, commuting to work, and preparing coffee – into opportunities to change both the function and structure of your brain in ways that improve both business acumen and emotional intelligence, two key drivers of leadership performance.

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Firm as a rock: Assessing, harnessing, and building resilience in an organization

CQ Net - Management skills for everyone!

Like “emotional intelligence” and “grit” before it, “resilience” has become a desirable and much-discussed quality that hiring managers seek and leaders work to increase (Leadbeater, Dodgen, & Solarz, 2005). One of the current “trends” in the science of management is examining employees’ resilience.

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Five Ways to Spot a Leader in the Wild

LDRLB

Emotional intelligence takes the practice of awareness a step further; true leaders control their emotions and manage the emotional turbulence around them. Self-awareness: As human beings, we’re so eager to prove our worth, that it’s rare to actually notice how our actions are affecting the people in our vicinity.

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3 Common M&A Pitfalls, and How to Avoid Them

Harvard Business Review

Experience has taught me that the art of good M&A requires a combination of careful research, emotional intelligence, and attention to detail that might otherwise get overlooked; due diligence requires more than a scan through boxes of contracts and reviewing the balance sheet. In 2005, eBay spent $2.6

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (1995). Studies show that a person’s emotional intelligence (the ability to manage one’s own emotions and the emotions of others) is not only more important than their IQ, but the single most important variable in career and life success.

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Why The Knee Is The Most Dangerous Part Of A Leader's Body

Terry Starbucker

The knee-jerk response (or amygdala hi-jacking as Daniel Goleman, the Emotional Intelligence guru calls it) is responsible for many a career-limiting or ending move. Great advice to gain emotional self-control before responding. Again, my thanks to both of you, and all the best!

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When a Public Mistake Requires an Old-Fashioned Apology

Harvard Business Review

Former Harvard President and Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers had to apologize in 2005 for his contention that “innate differences” between men and women accounted for the under-representation of women in the sciences. Difficult conversations Emotional intelligence Influence'