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May 2016 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Jim summarizes: Effective leadership involves staying true to steadfast principles and maintaining a consistent, ethical approach to how you conduct yourself daily, whether it’s through community service, managing in business or government, or interacting with peers as you solve problems and serve customers and clients.

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People Skills Are Hard Skills - More Than You Know

Building Personal Strength

One intellectual movement, called β€œemotional intelligence,” introduced by Daniel Goleman over 15 years ago, shined a spotlight on people skills. But he aggregated people skills, managing emotions, personality and character traits into a single area of competence, further confusing the issue.

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The DISC Model of Human Behavior – A Quick Overview | Guy Harris.

The Recovering Engineer

It has no moral or ethical standing on its own. There are also lots of controversy about those tests and what they are suppose to demonstrate but more particularly about their application. I think, as you indicated, that the problem lies not with the tool itself but with the application of the tool. It is just like any other tool.

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Office Politics Is Just Influence by Another Name

Harvard Business Review

The combination of emotional intelligence and, what the late great David McClelland, called socialized power , can result in influence strategies that make people enjoy working together toward common goals. Treat politics like the game it is, with all the seriousness and ethics it deserves. Influence Ethics'

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Are You Working Over the Thanksgiving Holiday?

Harvard Business Review

12:53 PM Tuesday November 23, 2010 by Edward Hallowell | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print If youre working — either from home or the office — over Thanksgiving, Im not sure whether to say, "Congratulations on your work ethic!" or "My condolences on your plight."

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How and Why We Lie at Work

Harvard Business Review

” In addition, effective liars tend to have higher levels of emotional intelligence , which lets them manipulate emotional signs in communication, monitor their audience’s reactions, and avoid something called non-verbal leakage – when our body language doesn’t match what we’re saying.

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