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Primal Leadership - by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee

Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence - summary article on the book.

Great leaders move us.They ignite our passion and inspire the best in us. When we try to explain why they are so effective, we speak of strategy, vision, or powerful ideas. But the reality is much more primal: Great leadership works through the emotions. Humankind’s original leaders earned their place because their leadership was emotionally compelling. In the modern organization this primordial emotional task remains.

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What makes a leader - by Daniel Goleman

IQ and technical skills are important, but emotional intelligence is the sine qua non of leadership.

What distinguishes great leaders from merely good ones? It's emotional intelligence: a group of five skills that enable the best leaders to maximize their own and their followers' performance. When senior managers at one company had a critical mass of EI capabilities, their divisions outperformed yearly earnings goals by 20%.

Appeared in the Harvard Business Review, March-April 2000.

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Leadership that gets results - by Daniel Goleman

New research suggests that the most effective executives use a collection of distinct leadership styles - each in the right measure, at just the right time. Such flexibility is tough to put into action, but it pays off in performance. Better still, it can be learned.

Appeared in the Harvard Business Review, March-April 2000.

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Expose your beliefs

Simon Sinek, author and motivational speaker, gave an inspiring TED talk recently about the power of a company’s beliefs.

We post a summary of his talk.

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