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The ROLE of Emotional Intelligence in Effective Leadership Today

The Center For Leadership Studies

In this time of unrest and change, the role of Emotional Intelligence (EI) in leadership has emerged as the critical skill set for leaders. Leaders who didn’t have that figured out before 2020 have certainly had a crash course—or crashed and burned. At every level of the organization, EI’s pivotal role is to help the leader: Manage self.

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The 4 Types of Organizational Politics

Harvard Business Review

Organizational politics refers to a variety of activities associated with the use of influence tactics to improve personal or organizational interests. Studies show that individuals with political skills tend to do better in gaining more personal power as well as managing stress and job demands, than their politically naive counterparts.