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First Look: Leadership Books for July 2020

Leading Blog

Leading with Feeling : Nine Strategies of Emotionally Intelligent Leadership by Cary Cherniss and Cornelia W. This book describes how 25 outstanding leaders used emotional intelligence to deal with critical challenges and opportunities. All In : How Obsessive Leaders Achieve the Extraordinary by Robert Bruce Shaw.

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I Exam: Negative Nuggets of Pessimism or Positive Points of Optimism?

The Practical Leader

” George Bernard Shaw. ” Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis & Annie McKee, Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence. .” Rutger Bergman, Humankind: A Hopeful History. “Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself and hates them for it.”

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My Fair Lady Shows the Power of Expectations

The Practical Leader

Last week I finally saw the famous musical My Fair Lady based on George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion. I took our fair daughter, Jennifer, to see My Fair Lady at the Shaw Festival in beautiful Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. We thoroughly enjoyed it. Study after study shows it’s profound and often quite subtle.

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Why You Want Mavericks In Your Team (And How To Manage Them)

The Horizons Tracker

George Bernard Shaw famously said that progress only ever comes as a result of unreasonable people bending the world to their will, and yet in an organizational context such mavericks are often pretty unpopular.

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