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What Great Leaders Know That Good Leaders Don’t about Self-Regulation

General Leadership

” Daniel Goleman. Consider the following: If EQ is to us, what an engine is to a car – then self-regulation is the drive train that powers how we operate. The drive train or transmission of any vehicle, transfers engine power to its wheels creating forward or backward movement. You lose all around.

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Don’t Let STEMM Leadership Be an Oxymoron

The Practical Leader

For many years I’ve been facilitating a 360 assessment and leadership development process for a deeply technical science/engineering association. ” Since participation in this career/leadership program for “high potentials” is voluntary, defensiveness is usually low, and interest in learning and developing is high.

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Giving Away Your Gifts

Persuasive Powerhouse

Inspiration when given as a gift is like the fuel that feeds the engine of prosperity for your organization. It has been a huge learning for me throughout my own life and career that presence is sometimes all that is needed. What keeps you from gifting your kindness? Mary Jo Asmus : June 21, 2010 at 8:57 pm Welcome, Scott!

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In Praise of Leaders Who Give Meaning to Labor

Persuasive Powerhouse

On this Labor Day, I give homage to those who shaped my own early career: Mom: Who taught me the art of domestic engineering: how to wash dishes, vacuum floors, make beds, and do the laundry with a sense of pride in the finished product.

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Is There Hope for Leaders?

Persuasive Powerhouse

A simple example – when I was in engineering college, in the final year, my dad bought me a car after much begging and pleading. I had the car for 20 days before I hit a truck head on and totaled it. I escaped with minor scrapes and stitches, miraculously.

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Resistance and Change – A Personal Experience | Aspire-CS

Persuasive Powerhouse

In the State of Nevada we, Professional Engineers, have to have 30 professional development hours of learning to renew our licenses every two years. I am a strong believer that everything or every process can be improved and we have to change our self to accommodate the improvement.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

Beyond shipping new features on a regular cadence and keeping the peace between engineering and the design team, the best PMs create products with strong user adoption that have exponential revenue growth and perhaps even disrupt an industry. Core Competencies. Self-management: Being a PM can be incredibly stressful.