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Authenticity: Beyond Leadership Doing to Being

The Practical Leader

Neuroscientist and Emotional Intelligence author, Robert Cooper, made several trips to Tibet as part of his research on the inner side of leadership. Strong leaders have high levels of Emotional Intelligence. Are they your internal “bone-deep” beliefs or an external “should” value?

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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 β€œis not balance with sober self-assessment or mature emotional intelligence, it becomes skewed and egocentric.” This is also demonstrated in consistent behavior. β€œA

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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 β€œact 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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Don’t Try to Read Your Employees’ Minds

Harvard Business Review

I think of this quote often when observing executives with a β€œlittle knowledge” of emotional intelligence (also called β€œEQ”). Don’t get me wrong; the beneficial insights and managerial advances derived from research on emotional intelligence have been game changing.

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Developing Mindful Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Weiss and her team were careful to keep the language of specific belief systems and religions out of PEP. Pierce attributes that to "the emotional intelligence of people and the capacity to change" developed in PEP. Put mindfulness at the center (but don't call it that!). But don't take his word for it.

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

You're Not the Boss of Me

Share this: 2 Comments Filed under Leadership Style Tagged as Affiiliative Leadership , Boyatzis , Coaching Leadership , Democratice Leadership , Emotional Intelligence , Goleman , McKee , Pace setting Leadership , Primal Leadership , Visionary Leadership ← Leadership Style Part II – Command & Control A Leader?