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Embracing Emotional Intelligence: The Art of Leading as a Feeling Being Who Thinks

CO2

This subtle yet profound shift in perspective emphasizes the importance of emotional intelligence in leadership. It’s not just about making logical decisions; it’s about understanding and managing emotions – both your own and those of your team. This empathy begins with self-awareness.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Leading Blog

Creating meaning, teaching, empathy, self control, creativity, emotional intelligence, and the ability to define consequences, will be indispensable skills to prosper in the future. Anyone can innovate if given the opportunity and the support. Adam Grant demonstrates how originality, can and should be taught and nurtured.

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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Short-term thinking has been charged with no less than a chronic decline in innovation capability by Clayton Christensen who termed it “the Capitalist’s Dilemma.” ) Corporations continue to focus too narrowly on shareholders , with terrible consequences – even at great companies like IBM. Townes, and Henry L.

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Making Room for Reflection Is a Strategic Imperative

Harvard Business Review

In turn, reflection becomes the rocket fuel for experimentation, the lifeblood of high-level innovation, the spark of deeper meaning, and the wellspring of enduring purpose. If youre here to "innovate" sugar water, then thinking in terms of orthodox buyers and suppliers might do the trick. So throw Frederick W.