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First Look: Leadership Books for January 2024

Leading Blog

Optimal : How to Sustain Personal and Organizational Excellence Every Day by Daniel Goleman and Cary Cherniss There are moments when we achieve peak performance: An athlete plays a perfect game; a business has a quarter with once-in-a-lifetime profits. So how do we sustain performance, while avoiding burnout and maintaining balance?

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Thoughts That Make You Go Hmmm on… Strong Leaders Boosting Positive Emotions

The Practical Leader

Leadership is almost all emotional intelligence, especially in distinguishing between what managers do and what leaders do… – Daniel Goleman, Working with Emotional Intelligence. – Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis & Annie McKee, Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence.

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Emotional Intelligence and A Call-Up to the Big Leagues

General Leadership

Curator Posts attitude coach emotional intelligence eq Goleman positive change relationships self awareness' Building on the other three skills, relationship management allows us to connect to those around us in a manner that communicates we are willing to make important to us what is important to them.

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Leading Change with Emotional Intelligence

Lead Change Blog

EQ expert Daniel Goleman credits emotional intelligence for 90% of the difference between star performers and average ones in senior leadership roles. Self-management is the ability to leverage the awareness of your emotions to respond to situations in positive and productive ways.

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Preview Thursday: Developing a Positive Culture Where People and Performance Thrive

Lead Change Blog

Goleman, 2007).”. Fortunately, the effect can also be reversed as research shows that working in the vicinity of a positive leader, makes you positive (Goleman, Biyatzis, McKee, 2004). Positive organizations are agile, more innovative, competitive, collaborative and productive. Our normal peripheral vision becomes reduced.

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For Better or Worse: Meetings Are a Hologram of Organizational Culture

The Practical Leader

Five decades of research shows the huge impact of organizational culture on outcomes like Return on Investment, stock prices, service/quality levels, productivity, sales, profitability, cost-effectiveness, and similar results. “Magnet cultures” attract and retain the best people. Are You Smartening Up or Dumbing Down Your Team?

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Emotions at Work: How Soft Skills Produce Hard Results

The Practical Leader

In their seminal book, Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence , Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee explain the book title by pointing to emotional impact as being at the very core of leadership. Emotions are the heart of life and leadership.

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