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Mindfulness Can Improve Strategy, Too

Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business Review contributors Daniel Goleman and Bill George have described mindfulness as a means to listen more deeply and guide actions through clear intention rather than emotional whims or reactive patterns. Visualize positive outcomes : As Daniel Goleman argues , positivity is part and parcel of focused attention.

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Why Young Bankers, Lawyers, and Consultants Need Emotional Intelligence

Harvard Business Review

As Daniel Goleman wrote in HBR in 1998 , “Without it, a person can have the best training in the world, an incisive, analytical mind, and an endless supply of smart ideas, but he still won’t make a great leader.” ” Emotional intelligence matters even more today. So how do you build client trust like this?