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Being a Responsible Leader

Leading Blog

A clear and established values and belief system also helps to smooth out irrational swings of behavior.” When an inner confidence “is not balance with sober self-assessment or mature emotional intelligence, it becomes skewed and egocentric.” Leadership Development' Adaptability and Learning Orientation. “We

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How to Avoid the 5 Career Derailers

Leading Blog

This can happen due to a simple fear of change or an inability to adjust to changes that have been made, or because they possess a rigid belief system. Cast finds that people with the right stuff act on their own initiative, they have emotional intelligence, and have tremendous perseverance and drive for results.

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Adversaries into Allies

Leading Blog

This is a guidebook to emotional intelligence and should be read from cover to cover. When we have our emotions under control we are able to “act out of thought, out of consciousness, and help create a situation in which everyone involved can come away as winners.” Understand the clash of belief systems.

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Developing Mindful Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Organizations invest billions annually on a success curriculum known as "leadership development," which ends up leaving so much on the table. Training and development programs almost universally focus factory-like on inputs and outputs — absorb curriculum, check a box; learn a skill, advance a rung; submit to assessment, fix a problem.

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More than One Way to Skin the Cat – Leadership Style Part III.

You're Not the Boss of Me

Is it possible to develop skill in all of them? And part of doing that is allowing ourselves to stay stuck in a belief system that doesn’t serve us, or anyone else, as well as it could if we were to challenge ourselves or spend a little more time reflecting on what we might do differently. Is there something missing?

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The Mental Benefits of Vacationing Somewhere New

Harvard Business Review

People who traveled to more countries developed a greater tolerance and trust of strangers, which altered their attitudes toward not only strangers but also colleagues and friends back home. But holidays are a terrific self-development opportunity. They became more appreciative of people with new knowledge, philosophies, and skills.

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