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First Look: Leadership Books for January 2024

Leading Blog

Optimal : How to Sustain Personal and Organizational Excellence Every Day by Daniel Goleman and Cary Cherniss There are moments when we achieve peak performance: An athlete plays a perfect game; a business has a quarter with once-in-a-lifetime profits. So how do we sustain performance, while avoiding burnout and maintaining balance?

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LeadershipNow 140: October 2011 Compilation

Leading Blog

The Must-Have Leadership Skill - Daniel Goleman - HBR. CEOs need to discern what is good and what may not be good for the business. Leadership Bit by Bit by @wallybock. Making New Connections : How the Brain Can Develop Into Adulthood @TheAtlantic. FT: New devices often provoke moral panics. tomasacker: What is branding?

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3 Critical Skills of Effective Leaders.

Rich Gee Group

The best tool to effectively communicate is Daniel Goleman’s: Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ. Blog Business Coaching C-Level Career Coaching Tip CEO CFO Coaching Communication Delegation Information Management Motivation Obstacles Performance VP' They help their people with obstacles.

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042: 3 Ways to Become a Resonant Leader | with Richard Boyatzis

Engaging Leader

His books include The Competent Manager ; the international best-seller Primal Leadership with Daniel Goleman and Annie McKee (in 28 languages); Resonant Leadership with Annie McKee (in 18 languages); and Becoming a Resonant Leader with Annie McKee and Fran Johnston (in 7 languages). How can a leader avoid “CEO disease”?

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 9/30/13)

First Friday Book Synopsis

Bob''s blog entries "McKinsey Quarterly: Top Ten Newsletter (Third Quarter 2013)" "Six Lessons for Managing CEO transitions" "The Corner Office" "The luck factor in all human experience" Adam Bryant Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Had His Top Execs Read These Three Books Are you a Diminisher or a Multiplier?

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High EQ: The most desirable leadership tenet of them all?

N2Growth Blog

Trends suggest increasing CEO pay, a lack of emotionally connecting with employees and even embezzlement are significant factors in these results. Below, I have taken from Daniel Goleman, an American Psychologist, five elements which define EQ.

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Leaders Need Three Kinds of Focus

QAspire

I once worked with a CEO who was paranoid about results, so much so that he never cared for relationships with those who delivered the results. mins) , Daniel Goleman explains why leaders need to cultivate their awareness at three levels and what they can do to improve upon these three areas of focus. The loss was almost irreparable.

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