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Developing The CEO Within You.

Rich Gee Group

EQ – Emotional Quotient (or Emotional Intelligence). For some positions (CFO, CIO), all their hard work to make it to the table is now useless when they need to use skills other than IQ: Communication – Communicate clearly and concisely. This is where most C-Level executives fail.

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Developing The CEO Within You.

Rich Gee Group

EQ – Emotional Quotient (or Emotional Intelligence) This is where most C-Level executives fail. For some positions (CFO, CIO), all their hard work to make it to the table is now useless when they need to use skills other than IQ: Communication – Communicate clearly and concisely.

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A Consultant’s Guide to Difficult Client Feedback

Harvard Business Review

We consistently heard that the CIO was autocratic and intimidating, and that his people were afraid to talk openly about mistakes. Knowing that this was an important issue for project success, we met with the CIO alone and, with some trepidation, gave him this feedback — direct and to the point. Is that true?”

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Is HR Too Important to Be Left to HR?

Harvard Business Review

Have you ever met a sales executive or a CIO who said: "Sales is too important to be left to Sales" or "IT is too important to be left to IT"? Have you ever met a sales executive or a CIO who said: "Sales is too important to be left to Sales" or "IT is too important to be left to IT"? Im sick about it. I doubt it. Im sick about it.

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Developing Mindful Leaders

Harvard Business Review

That was the question Todd Pierce asked himself in 2006 after years of experimenting with the full menu of trainings, meetings, and competency models in his capacity as CIO of biotechnology giant Genentech. Pierce attributes that to "the emotional intelligence of people and the capacity to change" developed in PEP.

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Are We Asking Too Much of Our CIOs?

Harvard Business Review

It is all well and good — and true — to say that the role and mandate of the CIO are expanding. But too many organizations are stretching their Chief Information Officers (CIO) too thin. Today''s CIOs must learn to balance all of these personas. CIOs especially need: an integrative mind. focus and vision.

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