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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. ” Authentic Leadership Isn’t Just What We Do, But Who We Are Action is the outer expression of leadership. But leadership isn’t just what we do.

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Being a Responsible Leader

Leading Blog

In The Responsible Leader , author Tim Richardson begins with a well-written overview of how we got where we are in our leadership understanding and the forces that are shaping our leadership context today. It points to the need for more responsible leadership. Leadership Development'

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How to Avoid the 5 Career Derailers

Leading Blog

Cast relates a conversation he had with Stuart Kaplan, the director of leadership recruiting at Google to make this point: As you progress [in your career], your relationship with others is more important than your knowledge of and relationship with data. In short, they lack interpersonal skills. A Version 1.0 Version 1.0’s

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Adversaries into Allies

Leading Blog

Adversaries into Allies is Leadership 101. Leadership is intentional influence. This is a guidebook to emotional intelligence and should be read from cover to cover. A manipulator will play on your negative emotions in order to elicit your compliance.” 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 “little knowledge” of emotional intelligence (also called “EQ”). 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

Organizations invest billions annually on a success curriculum known as "leadership development," which ends up leaving so much on the table. In other words, what if cultivating a successful inner life was front and center on the leadership agenda? 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

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← Leadership Style Part II – Command & Control A Leader? Reply Leave a Reply Cancel reply Quote of the Week The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. What do you think?