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Are You Ready for Recovery?

Leading Blog

It is an approach that was born out of many years’ experience as corporate leaders ourselves and our experience developing organizational leaders using Emotional Intelligence approaches. We realized that leaders could be emotionally intelligent but also manipulative and self-serving. The Transpersonal Touchstone Explored.

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Why Teams Often Don’t Work and How to Build Them

The Practical Leader

In Working with Emotional Intelligence , Daniel Goleman, reports, “a study by the Center for Creative Leadership of top American and European executives whose careers derailed, the inability to build and lead a team was one of the most common reasons for failure.” . “You haven’t asked us to help you.”

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The Discipline of Listening

Harvard Business Review

My knowledge of corporate leaders' 360-degree feedback indicates that one out of four of them has a listening deficit—the effects of which can paralyze cross-unit collaboration, sink careers, and if it's the CEO with the deficit, derail the company. Conventional advice for better listening is to be emotionally intelligent and available.

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Why The Best Hospitals Are Managed by Doctors

Harvard Business Review

” Having spent their careers looking through a patient-focused lens, physicians moving into executive positions might be expected to bring a patient-focused strategy. Core to the curriculum is emotional intelligence (with 360-degree feedback and executive coaching), teambuilding, conflict resolution, and situational leadership.

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The Great Repeatable Leader

Harvard Business Review

It was led people by who have devoted their career to this topic and included Daniel Goleman, coiner of the term "emotional intelligence." To find the answer to that question I attended a session on leadership at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

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Working with People Who Aren’t Self-Aware

Harvard Business Review

Even though self-awareness — knowing who we are and how we’re seen — is important for job performance , career success , and leadership effectiveness , it’s in remarkably short supply in today’s workplace. Typically, if someone is unaware, there’s a consensus about their behavior (i.e.,

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Jack Griffin's Ouster: Lessons from a Failed "Change Agent"

Harvard Business Review

Griffin is, I hear, not known for emotional intelligence. career: Avoid the term "change agent." This means that job #1 for a leader is to go native, immediately taking the side of the organization, uniting it against a common enemy, and building consensus on what "we" should do. He launches into tirades at meetings.