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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. Systems perspective. Pattern recognition. Mental agility. Political savvy.

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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. Practice systemic listening. Before doing something, they think about how their actions might impact others. Practice empathy.

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

The Practical Leader

This has turned social media into systems that amplify our worst qualities.” ” Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis & Annie McKee, Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence. ” Rutger Bergman, Humankind: A Hopeful History. “Do you know what a pessimist is? ” George Bernard Shaw.

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 7/29/13)

First Friday Book Synopsis

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS Inside the Box: A Proven System of Creativity for Breakthrough Results Drew Boyd and Jacob Goldenberg Flight from Monticello: Thomas Jefferson at War Thomas Kranish Icons and Idiots: Straight Talk on Leadership Robert A. Lutz NUMBERSENSE: […].

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My 2020 Story and a Few Lessons Along the Way

QAspire

Health is a system you cannot hack. It is a system that needs careful attention to all its parts working well together. Daniel Goleman on Three Kinds of Focus Leaders Need. Service is the highest form of self-expression. During pandemic, people consumed vitamins and immunity boosting pills. How to Learn More Effectively.

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Is Your Leadership Creating an Energy Crisis?

The Practical Leader

A flight attendant’s response showed how management just didn’t get it, “We’re smiling in spite of the fact that we’re doing our job with fewer flight attendants, a system that often breaks down, and a product that’s deteriorated.” ” Is your leadership raising or lowering energy?

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