How High is President Obama’s EQ?
What made me ask this question was a talk that I attended by Professor Fred Greenstein of Princeton at the University of Sydney titled Barack Obama: The Man And His Early Presidency. Greenstein listed off six key leadership qualities ranging from his gifted communication skills to high EQ. He said the high EQ of Obama is demonstrated by his ability to overcome tumultuous childhood (black father and white mother who divorced when he was two, Indonesian step-father, raised from the age of 10 by gr.....
Read MoreThe Attitude of Wisdom
I have been on holidays for the past three weeks in the USA attending among other things the Masters in Augusta. I will write a blog next week about golf and emotional intelligence but I need to wrap up Mr Pfeffer. In the previous blog I argued that it was hubris that led to managers making mistakes. How do you control hubris using evidence based management is to me the key message that comes from the Pfeffer-Sutton book Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evide.....
Read MoreMaradona’s Mistake
It was terrific to see Juan Martan del Potro beat Roger Federer in the US Tennis Open and provide some much needed relief to the Argentinean psyche. My wife and I have just spent two weeks in Buenos Aires on holiday and the Argentineans were in a state of despair. Far and away the topic dominating the television was the impending football match against Brazil. The rivalry between these two giants of South American football is perhaps one of the fiercest in the world. After a particularly rough.....
Read MoreThe Emotional Intelligence of Anna Meares
Emotional Intelligence has been defined as the wait between impulse and action. Indeed Daniel Goleman (whose book, Emotional Intelligence, launched both the term and the movement) used the marshmallow study as the demonstration of emotional intelligence. In the 1960s a group of four-year olds were tested by being given a marshmallow and promised another, if they could wait 10 minutes before eating the first one. Some children could wait and others could not. The experimenters then followed the p.....
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:
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- made me think.
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