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First Look: Leadership Books for January 2024

Leading Blog

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in January 2024 curated just for you. All In : How Great Leaders Build Unstoppable Teams by Mike Michalowicz It’s never been harder building successful teams. So how do we sustain performance, while avoiding burnout and maintaining balance?

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Why Teams Often Don’t Work and How to Build Them

The Practical Leader

In Working with Emotional Intelligence , Daniel Goleman, reports, “a study by the Center for Creative Leadership of top American and European executives whose careers derailed, the inability to build and lead a team was one of the most common reasons for failure.” That takes leadership skill. Servant-leadership.

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Daniel Goleman on “How to Find Your Flow”

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Daniel Goleman and featured by LinkedIn. * * * Where we want to be on the Yerkes-Dodson arc is the zone of optimal performance, known as “flow” in the research of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi [pronounced cheek-sent-me-high] at the University of Chicago. Flow represents a peak of [.].

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6 Common Leadership Styles — and How to Decide Which to Use When

Harvard Business Review

But what if you feel like you’re not equipped to take on a new and different leadership style — let alone more than one? In this article, the author outlines the six leadership styles Daniel Goleman first introduced in his 2000 HBR article, “Leadership That Gets Results,” and explains when to use each one.

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20 Articles to Help Leaders Navigate the COVID 19 Crisis

Great Leadership By Dan

Focus On Trust: Successful Leadership In Times Of Crisis.(Forbes) 6 Ways You Can Show True Leadership During a Crisis (Inc.) 4 Leadership Skills for Crisis Management (Daniel Goleman, using your emotional intelligence) 4. Crisis leadership Guiding the organization through uncertainty and chaos (Deloitte) 5.

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LeadershipNow 140: January 2019 Compilation

Leading Blog

How To Be Successful by @sama. VIDEO: How to turn a group of strangers into a team by @AmyCEdmondson. David Bowie knew how to inspire creativity via @quartzatwork. 3 Steps For Dusting Off Your Leadership in the New Year by Linda Fisher Thornton @leadingincontxt. If You Think You Can, You Will by @DougConant.

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High EQ: The most desirable leadership tenet of them all?

N2Growth Blog

With the demand for high EQ leaders increasing, what should future leaders consider when in pursuit of developing the most desirable leadership tenet of them all ? Below, I have taken from Daniel Goleman, an American Psychologist, five elements which define EQ. How to develop EQ. Well, you must start by being human.