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How to Avoid the 5 Career Derailers

Leading Blog

The careers of one-half to two-thirds of managers and leaders will derail. “At Captain Fantastic’s poor ego management results in behavior that is a combination of defensiveness, arrogance, lack of composure, being distrustful, being mischievous and colorful, and being passive. W HY DO SOME careers stall while others flourish?

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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. Managing people'

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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?

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The Mental Benefits of Vacationing Somewhere New

Harvard Business Review

The first benefit is enhanced emotional agility , or the ability to not react immediately to emotions, but to observe those that arise, carefully collect information to understand the possible causes, then intentionally decide how to manage them.

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