My Favourite Book on Leadership
For my sins I subscribe to the McKinsey Quarterly and every year one article is published that hits the mark. Not much impressed me in the past 12 months but the latest edition contained this wonderful article by Professor Jeffery Pfeffer: “Getting beyond the BS of leadership literature”. Pfeffer, on his own, has written extensively about power. Pfeffer and his Stanford co-author, Robert Sutton have written extensively about evidence based management theory. In his latest book, Leade.....
Read MoreLeaders are readers What books should leaders read?
Recently I became involved in a LinkedIn discussion group suggesting 40 books to read before you turn 40. The majority of the recommendations were either ‘New Age’ or ‘Organic/Health food’. I had only read three of the 40 books, David Copperfield (highly recommended), Think and Grow Rich, and The Power of Positive Thinking and had no inclination to read any of the remaining 37.. As the group called itself Leadership Skills & Development for Business a subgroup of Small Business.....
Read MoreAre EQ skills important for managers?
While the proponents of Emotional Intelligence (including yours truly) are always saying how important it is, there are few studies you can actually point to saying that it is important. However a recent analysis done by Korn Ferry: Korn Ferry Study Identifies Leadership Challenges Being Coached Most Often supports the argument that managers should learn to lift their emotional intelligence. The study surveyed more than 200 coaches from around the globe who are part of Korn Ferry’s coaching.....
Read MoreWhy the Forbes article Why Your Boss Lacks Emotional Intelligence is rubbish.
Forbes recently published on 6 January 2015 a blog by Travis Bradberry, author of Emotional Intelligence 2.0, Why Your Boss Lacks Emotional Intelligence. The key message in the article was the following graph. According to Bradberry “the EQ scores descend faster than a snowboarder on a black diamond. CEOs, on average, have the lowest EQ scores in the workplace.” And looking at the graph you would be hard pressed not to come to the same conclusion. However if you have read that great b.....
Read MoreChris Golis - Author
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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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