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Shifting from Star Performer to Star Manager

Harvard Business Review

You’re well aware that you’ll need to rely on your emotional intelligence skills to understand and work through your new team’s dynamics. This takes tremendous emotional intelligence, starting with self awareness. But, as David McClelland pointed out, the need for power is very human. Add to Cart.

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Leadership Is About to Get More Uncomfortable

Harvard Business Review

David McClelland points out that both emotionally intelligent leaders and their egocentric counterparts tend to be motivated by power; they enjoy having an impact on others.The difference is in the type of power driving them: Egocentric leaders tend to be concerned only with personalized power – power that gets them ahead.

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Office Politics Is Just Influence by Another Name

Harvard Business Review

And, despite the bad rap that politics gets, successfully engaging in politics requires the development and use of good qualities. The combination of emotional intelligence and, what the late great David McClelland, called socialized power , can result in influence strategies that make people enjoy working together toward common goals.