Book Review A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness by Nassir Ghaemi
In this book Ghaemi puts forward an hypothesis that he calls The Inverse Law of Sanity. According to him most of our leaders are exceedingly sane men such as Neville Chamberlain who in times of normality perform well. However in times of crisis display such people demonstrate lacklustre leadership. Instead in such times the best leaders are those with mood disorders. Ghaemi argues his case using such leaders as Abraham Lincoln, Gen. William T. Sherman, Winston Churchill, Mohandas Gandhi,.....
Read MoreHow to Truly Gain Rapport
Daniel Goleman recently posted an interesting blog: Leaders: Learn the Art and Science of Rapport. In the blog Goleman quotes a landmark article by Robert Rosenthal and Linda Tickle-Degnan that described the three essential ingredients for rapport: mutual attention, shared positive feeling, and synchrony or coordination. Rapport doesn’t exist when only some of these elements are present. Goleman then elaborates these factors in more detail: Mutual empathy is an indicato.....
Read MoreBook Review: Emotional Enlightenment: Managing Feelings for Success by Jane Birdsell
Each of the four Amazon customer reviews of this book gave it five stars. I only gave it four. Jane Birdsell has been Nursing Instructor, a Public Health Nurse, and a mother of two children. After her children started school, she obtained a Masters degree in Counselling Psychology from the University of Calgary. For 25 years, she worked as a psychologist conducting her own private counselling practice and teaching Personal Development Seminars. Accordingly this book is written is a practical man.....
Read MoreThe True Colours of Emotional Intelligence
I recently came across this article: When it comes to emotional intelligence, are you red, blue, green or orange? At the CIPS Annual Conference in London, both Andrew Newnham, group procurement director at ITV, and Elinor Williams, head of marketing procurement at Marks & Spencer described how they people according to their colour and adjusted their relationship approach. What I found particularly amusing in the article was the total inconsistency in the profiling methodology. Newnham class.....
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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.
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