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Are You Ready for Recovery?

Leading Blog

It is an approach that was born out of many years’ experience as corporate leaders ourselves and our experience developing organizational leaders using Emotional Intelligence approaches. We realized that leaders could be emotionally intelligent but also manipulative and self-serving.

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July 2021 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

This is why the Imposter Syndrome bedevils us more and more as we rise higher in an organization or move out farther away from organizational groupthink into entrepreneurship to take on more accountability and (potentially) make more costly mistakes. Find Dana on Twitter at @DanaTheus. Bernd Geropp provided How I learned to delegate. .

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Five highlights from the 2023 CMI President’s Dinner

Chartered Management Institute

We’ve seen toxic cultures allowed to flourish in large and high-profile organisations, erratic leadership behaviours, groupthink and boardrooms struggling to maintain control. Scroll for more Shortcut to start of content The public expects institutions and big businesses to show high standards of leadership and management.

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Personality Tests Can Help Balance a Team

Harvard Business Review

Others, perhaps driven by their own narcissism, pick people who are like them, which kills diversity and breeds groupthink. For example, we know that teams with members who are open minded and emotionally intelligent leverage conflict to improve performance, whereas neurotic and closed-minded teams fall apart in the face of disagreement.

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Four Keys to Thinking About the Future

Harvard Business Review

He was convinced that this otherwise entirely pleasant socializing and socialization led invariably to a kind of groupthink among the community of experts. Training in emotional intelligence is life-long work, and most of us need as many tutors as possible. His logic was simple. We all prize it. Learn to Deal with Ambiguity.