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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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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.” You are not using all your strength,” the scout replied.

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5 Ways Leaders Can Raise Their Emotional Intelligence

Lead Change Blog

Consider the research of psychologist David Goleman at nearly 200 large, global companies in which he found that truly effective leaders are distinguished by a high degree of emotional intelligence. Without being tuned into your emotions, you may project stress or anger onto your team, confusing and disillusioning them.

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I Exam: Negative Nuggets of Pessimism or Positive Points of Optimism?

The Practical Leader

” Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis & Annie McKee, Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence. “One study found that project teams with encouraging managers performed 31 percent better than teams whose managers were less positive and less open with praise. .

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Organizational Design and Social Networks

LDRLB

Goleman argues that emotional intelligence is a primary indicator of the success of a leader. This also means that some employees may be bypassed for promotions and projects because of their inability to navigate the complexities of the fluid and global organization. Goleman, D., Galbraith, J. Designing the global corporation.

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Too Much Information (TMI) Factor

Coaching Tip

From teachers at school encouraging students to share the workload on a group project to parents helping their kids divide up toys, sharing is one of life's first lessons. Daniel Goleman, Annie McKee, Richard E. Many of us feel that we are receiving too much information already. Everyone learned to share as a young child.

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New Year’s Leadership Development Goals 2017 Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

I’ll read Daniel Goleman HRB article “ What Makes a Leader ”. Stretch myself with a “strategic challenge” project. Work with my manager to come up with a developmental “learn by doing project”. I’ll take a multi-rater assessment or figure out some other way to get an accurate assessment as to how I am perceived by others.