Toxic Leaders and Toxic Cultures
(Rupert this cartoon is for you.) Two more interesting blogs arrive in my in-tray recently. The first was by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Ph.D. who positions himself as Mr. Personality: The Science of Predicting Unethical and Toxic Work Behaviours. The second blog was by Emily Reynolds who is a staff writer at BPS Research Digest: People In Positions Of Power Are More Likely To Blame And Punish Others For Poor Performance In the first blog Tomas argues that too many managers and .....
Read MoreMore on Extraverts and Introverts
Two interesting pieces appeared in my in-tray this month. The first was a blog from BBC Worklife: Why introverts didn't actually 'win' lockdown. The second was a blog from the BPS Digest: We Feel Happier When Behaving More Extraverted Than Normal. Thankfully both blogs describe extraversion as a trait and not a type. This blog of mine explains the difference but in summary there is personality function called extraversion that is Normally distributed. The upper sixth are extravert.....
Read MoreEQ and the CRT
If you have 5 minutes try answering these three questions: A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost? If it takes 5 machines 5 minutes to make 5 widgets, how long would it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets? In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch doubles in size. If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half of the lake? You.....
Read MoreTwo Combination Book/Podcast Reviews on Emotional Intelligence
As is now the modern way I recently received two podcasts where two authors were interviewed about their newly released books on Emotional Intelligence. The first podcast was an interview with Amy Jacobson, the author of Emotional Intelligence: A Simple and Actionable Guide to Increasing Performance, Engagement and Ownership. After listening to her podcast I decided not to buy her book. Firstly she uses the now defunct definition five domain of Emotional Intelligence first postulated.....
Read MoreChris Golis - Author
"Put in a sales perspective, I loved your presentation! I got a lot from what you talked about and I will read your book."
Peter Morris, Executive Officer, Lomax Financial Group
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:
- Great presentation. Very informative.
- Excellent presentation.
- made me think.
Christi Spring CEO Institute. - web www.ceo.com.au.