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Smarten Up: Hone Your EQ Edge

The Practical Leader

The good news for many of us is that our IQ is less important to success and happiness than our EQ (Emotional Quotient or Emotional Intelligence). I’ve extensively quoted and cited the expanding body of emotional intelligence (EI) research for many years in my writing and workshops. Too many are bully bosses.

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Workplace Culture: How to Leverage Innovation No AI Bot Can Replace

Let's Grow Leaders

Technology is commoditizing many products and services, and “easy” jobs are going away. According to a Pew Research study experts predict robots and digital agents powered by artificial intelligence will significantly displace blue-collar and white-collar jobs by 2025. If you’re not sure, you’re not alone.

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Does Working With AI Help Or Hinder Employees?

The Horizons Tracker

For this augmentation to be effective, however, will quite probably require a rethinking of the processes we use at work so that the capabilities of the technology are fully capitalized on. They argue that technology is beneficial in the workplace when it complements human capabilities.

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Win/Win: Workplace Well-Being Boosts Company-Well Being

The Practical Leader

BUT…many senior executives still consider “soft skills” such as emotional intelligence, perceptions, engagement, and the like secondary to “hard decisions” such as strategies, investments, financial systems/analysis, technology, automation, AI, etc. Everybody wins.

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Don’t Let STEMM Leadership Be an Oxymoron

The Practical Leader

Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine (STEMM) are vital to our economy, climate, health, and well-being. Further, this immersion in the technology occurs in the formative years of a person’s higher education and career, when most patterns of social and emotional demeanor are set into personality traits.”

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The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

 Others suggest that this form of ranking can hurt morale and inhibit cooperation among competing team members that ultimately puts individual interest ahead of what is best for the company.  In many cases, both sides have valid arguments.  In many cases, both sides have valid arguments.

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3 Common M&A Pitfalls, and How to Avoid Them

Harvard Business Review

M&A deals that are made for the purpose of acquiring new technology can make or break a company. But there was a little known fact complicating the situation: The purchase didn’t include full ownership of Skype’s underlying technology. Eugene Mymrin/Getty Images. In 2005, eBay spent $2.6