Australia Day: An Apology
Artist Ian Hansen’s “Botany Bay – 26 January 1788” of two French ships of Laperouse entering Botany Bay at the same time as Britain’s First Fleet leaves for Sydney Cove. Today (26 January) is Australia’s National Day. As apologies seem to be all the go now, particularly today I want to issue my own. For my international readers some background. Australia Day does not celebrate when Australia became a nation. That was on 1 January 1901 when 6 British colonies—New S.....
Read MoreHow mindfulness can blunt your feelings and spike anxiety
Like many websites BBC.com is publishing its best stories of 2021. It led off with this one by David Robson first published 5 February: Stress, anxiety, productivity: mindfulness is often touted as a solution to nearly everything. But research shows that you can actually take meditation too far. The paper focuses on two well-known meditation strategies: mindful breathing, in which you focus on the feelings of respiration, and the body scan, in which you pass your attention from head .....
Read MoreBook Review – Leading with Feeling
Every month I receive the EI Update, the E-Newsletter of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations. For the past two months it has been plugging Leading with feeling: Nine strategies of emotionally intelligent leadership by Cherniss, C., & Roche, C. Cary Cherniss, Ph.D., is Emeritus Professor of Applied Psychology at Rutgers University, and co-chair of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations along with Daniel Goleman. T.....
Read MoreTheatre Review – Death of a Salesman
In the third and final part of The Humm Handbook: Lifting Your Level of Emotional Intelligence I make use of an idea developed by my tutor at the London Business School, Charles Handy. Charles thought that the problem with most MBA business case studies is that they dated very quickly. Instead, he organised an MBA elective studying the leadership lessons from the great plays of the Western Canon. It was one of the best courses that I ever did. So in the book as a homage to Charles, .....
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Your presentation on 'Lifting your Level of Emotional Intelligence" to 10 CEOs scored an average 8.9 out of 10 for the topic and 8.5 for the presentation which is great. A couple of the attendees gave you a 10 out of 10, and the comments were:
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