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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (1995). Studies show that a person’s emotional intelligence (the ability to manage one’s own emotions and the emotions of others) is not only more important than their IQ, but the single most important variable in career and life success.

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Top Leadership Experts to Follow in 2015

Modern Servant Leader

Contact: caduhigg@gmail 9 43,800 5,107 9,706 Clayton Christensen Innovation, Leadership Professor at Harvard Business School. HBCU & #Gonzaga Alumna 1 2,873 1,988 Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence, Personal Development The Official Twitter Account for Emotional Intelligence Author, Daniel Goleman.

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How New Managers Can Send the Right Leadership Signals

Harvard Business Review

As one new manager shared recently, “my professional leadership goal is to be a genuine and emotionally intelligent manager who inspires others to excellence.” ” Increase your emotional intelligence and situational awareness. As a new manager, spend time to consider the kind of leader you are and hope to be.

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Why Management Ideas Matter

Harvard Business Review

Ideas like Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligence Theory laid the foundations for notions such as empowerment and emotional intelligence , which have since become as familiar to us as the air we breathe. Or consider the influence of Clayton Christensen, who tops the new ranking. The ideas of INSEAD professors Chan W.

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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Short-term thinking has been charged with no less than a chronic decline in innovation capability by Clayton Christensen who termed it “the Capitalist’s Dilemma.” ) Corporations continue to focus too narrowly on shareholders , with terrible consequences – even at great companies like IBM.