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Leading with Experiential Intelligence with Soren Kaplan

Let's Grow Leaders

But experiential intelligence is another vital way of looking at what we know, the mindsets that shape our actions, abilities, and skills 8:03 – Why and how to understand the automatic pilot that has helped us survive, but might not best serve us or our leadership today. Examining them and making choices about them is key.

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Experiential Intelligence: What It Is and How to Grow It

Leading Blog

In Experiential Intelligence , author Soren Kaplan describes XQ as “the combination of mindsets, abilities, and know-how gained from your unique life experience that empowers you to achieve your goals.” Know-How: Your knowledge and skills. Kaplan provides specific questions and methods to dig into each of the three areas.

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How To Harness Your Experiential Intelligence

Eric Jacobson

“Experiential Intelligence provides a new lens from which to view what makes you, you—and what makes your team and organization unique,” says Soren Kaplan , author of the book, Experiential Intelligence. Kaplan explains that over 100 years ago, we established IQ (Intelligence Quotient) to predict success.

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How To Harness Your Experiential Intelligence

Eric Jacobson

“Experiential Intelligence provides a new lens from which to view what makes you, you—and what makes your team and organization unique,” says Soren Kaplan , author of the new book, Experiential Intelligence. Kaplan explains that over 100 years ago, we established IQ (Intelligence Quotient) to predict success.

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How to Avoid the 5 Career Derailers

Leading Blog

In short, they lack interpersonal skills. Cast relates a conversation he had with Stuart Kaplan, the director of leadership recruiting at Google to make this point: As you progress [in your career], your relationship with others is more important than your knowledge of and relationship with data. I’ve got this.” Version 1.0.

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Why Innovation is not "Invented Here"

Coaching Tip

In LEAPFROGGING , author Soren Kaplan reveals why this command-and-control mindset is exactly what stymies innovation. The leapfrogging life cycle that Kaplan describes in his book is not a step-by-step how to guide. Soren Kaplan: Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs.

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Leaders Can’t Execute Strategy

Great Leadership By Dan

This has left a skills gap among today’s leaders that heavily contributes to the downfall of company attempts to execute their strategy, resulting in loss of market and shareholder value. I call this the “Strategy Execution Skills Gap”. For this to happen companies need to invest in closing the Strategy Execution Skills Gap.

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