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Use a 360-Degree Approach to Get Feedback on Leading Change

Lead Change Blog

I use the LQ360 from RightPath Resources , which groups feedback by leadership competencies like delivering results, building relationships, developing others, and emotional intelligence. In a popular Harvard Business Review article, Kristi Hedges suggests the following approac. I call it the DIY (do-it-yourself) 360.

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How to Overcome Your Fear of Failure

Harvard Business Review

People are quick to blame themselves for failure, and companies hedge against it even if they pay lip service to the noble concept of trial and error. Despite that fact, Alex could not shake the perception that he himself had not succeeded, even though there was nothing he could have logically done to anticipate or change this outcome.

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Four Keys to Thinking About the Future

Harvard Business Review

Training in emotional intelligence is life-long work, and most of us need as many tutors as possible. Of course, the wisest among us will always hedge our forecasts with qualifiers such as “will likely” or “is apt to.” HBR writers have more than once made the business case for reading literature.

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7 Skills That Aren’t About to Be Automated

Harvard Business Review

For example, if you are suggesting cost reduction and balance sheet restructuring to GE, where activist investor Nelson Peltz, one of the founders of hedge fund Trian Fund Management, has a major stake, your pitch has a very different meaning than it would at News Corporation, where Rupert Murdoch still has effective control of the company.

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To Build Your Resilience, Ask Yourself Two Simple Questions

Harvard Business Review

One of my students at London Business School joined a hedge fund and was bummed when he was laid off at the start of the financial crisis. And the groups of people who feel it most. See More Videos > See More Videos > Most of us can recall many such instances. But he received a healthy severance.

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The Busier You Are, the More You Need Mindfulness

Harvard Business Review

We have worked with banks willing to take on toxic assets (again) and hedge funds willing to take a $100 million gamble on a failing company. The most forward-looking companies are willing to take risks to achieve greatness. Most leaders give lip service to this idea, but few actually do it.

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The Business Case for Reading Novels

Harvard Business Review

And a study of a Fortune 400 health insurance company conducted by Peter Salovey, a psychology professor at Yale, looked at the correlations between emotional intelligence and salary and found that people rated highest by their peers in emotional intelligence received the biggest raises and were promoted most frequently.