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The True Value of Leadership

Leading Blog

This is a post by Dave Ulrich and Justin Allen. Dave Ulrich is the author of The Leadership Capital Index in which he details how equity or debt investors can systematically and predictably determine the quality of leadership to make faster and more informed decisions and gain a critical information advantage over their competitors.

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Leadership Value is Defined by the Receiver

Leading Blog

W E ALL RESONATE with the clarion call for leaders to build on their strengths, be authentic, and demonstrate emotional intelligence. Effective leaders turn their emotional intelligence into helping others find their purpose and meaning. This value-added principle applies in almost every relationship.

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How Leaders Can Develop Their Skills With One Simple Habit

Tanveer Naseer

In fact, research in neuroscience suggests that you can transform simple, daily activities – like brushing your teeth, commuting to work, and preparing coffee – into opportunities to change both the function and structure of your brain in ways that improve both business acumen and emotional intelligence, two key drivers of leadership performance.

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Leading a “Mozart”

Lead Change Blog

While most “Mozarts” would get an easy A+ in creativity, their impatience with diplomacy would net them a grade of F in “emotional intelligence.”. As the leader of a “Mozart” it may help to remember the paraphrased words of Harvard history professor Laurel Ulrich: “Well behaved people seldom make history.”.

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (1995). Studies show that a person’s emotional intelligence (the ability to manage one’s own emotions and the emotions of others) is not only more important than their IQ, but the single most important variable in career and life success.