The Emotional Intelligence of Football Coaches
The social media world of Emotional Intelligence is currently buzzing with news that the coach of the Philidelphia Eagles, Chip Kelly, was dismissed for lacking emotional intelligence. I know very little about Gridiron Football but if you want a classic example of how a coach with high emotional intelligence can improve the performance of a team look no further than the current coach of the Australian National Rugby Team, Michael Cheika. Michael Cheika has an impressive track record in tur.....
Read MoreBook Review The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking by Oliver Burkeman
I recently attended a two-day workshop on developing publicity for SMEs. The course was mainly about teaching you how to write a press release that would attract media attention and where to distribute it. It was an excellent, practical workshop but even it was permeated with a section on positive thinking. I am all for realistic goal setting and love quoting one of my first sales mentors that that the only thing more contagious than enthusiasm is the lack of it. However when someone starts quot.....
Read MoreBook 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.....
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