Decoding leadership: What really matters – it is IQ+EQ.
Google “Leadership” and you get some 500 million hits including some blogs by yours truly: Why leaders need eagle eyes and Leaders are readers: What books should leaders read? However there was recent article in the McKinsey Quarterly Decoding leadership: What really matters that I thought was exceptional. The article reported a study done by McKinsey where the writers composed a list of 20 distinct leadership traits and then surveyed 189,000 people in 81 diverse organisations. The numbers.....
Read MoreLeadership and Vision
A sine qua non of nearly every talk or blog on leaderhip is the importance of vision. Typically the author says that unless the leader has visualised and articulated a dream which he or she then successfully communicates to the team, then he or she will fail as a leader. While this sounds terrific, my experience says this is not what happens. As a venture capitalist, I was involved for 25 years with start-up and growing companies and far important than vision for success was flexibility. Succe.....
Read MoreHow to tell you are suffering from CEO disease?
For those unfamiliar with the term, CEO disease is the information vacuum around a leader created when people withhold important (and usually unpleasant) information. It leaves the leader out of touch and out of tune. The natural isolation of the leader and the eagerness of subordinates to bring good news are the two natural causes of CEO disease. The classic example is when subordinates put nothing but good news onto the CEO's desk. "How's it going?" the CEO asks. "Great," says the departm.....
Read MoreHow Poor EQ Killed the Polish President
One of the great tragedies last year was the death of Polish President, Lech Kaczynski, and 95 others when the airplane carrying them crashed in dense fog over the Russian city of Smolensk in April. The Russian investigation has just released its draft report, causing uproar. The report asserts psychological rather than technical reasons for the crash. Supposedly in 2008, the pilot Protasiuk had been in an eerily similar position. Then flying as the co-pilot, he looked on as his captain defie.....
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.