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Didn't See It Coming

Leading Blog

I just assume I’m better, smarter, or wiser or that I have greater emotional intelligence than others. That gap is a factor of how fast things change relative to you. You defeat it by continuouslychanging, learning, and evolving. Change staves off irrelevance.” Get radical about change.

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Thank You For Your Service (My Proudest Guest Post Ever!)

Mills Scofield

Training a newly formed Afghan Air Force is the epitome in complex continual change management. Matthew T Fritz is a leader and mentor in the field of complex organizational change, emotional intelligence, and organization strategy. We salute and extend our gratitude back to you!

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Why Leadership Development Isn’t Developing Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Yet study after study, including my own , tells us the qualities that leaders in today’s world need are intuitive, dynamic, collaborative, and grounded in here-and-now emotional intelligence. The mismatch between leadership development as it exists and what leaders actually need is enormous and widening. What would work better?