The ‘I’ of Leadership
Earlier this year I was at the London Business School attending a reunion. Among the various speakers was Nigel Nicholson, the not-so-young ‘enfant terrible’ of the Organisational Behaviour Department. Naturally, as all good business school lecturers do, Nigel spruiked his latest book, The ‘I’ of Leadership. Nigel has spent a lifetime studying leadership and the scope of this book is truly amazing. There are 552 footnotes to the 16 chapters! Yes a number are “op. cit.s” and “ibid.s.....
Read MoreBoyatzis EQ and Leadership
Last week there was a worldwide virtual conference on Emotional Intelligence. Among the speakers was Richard Boyatzis, a co-author with Daniel Goleman on several books on Emotional Intelligence and Leadership. His webinar was titled Inspiring Leadership and Motivating Learning through Coaching to Emotional Intelligence. Disregarding the daunting title his talk contained some interesting insights. The quote of the talk was "The music of leadership is emotion.” Boyatzis began by noting that mil.....
Read MoreRecognising the Type A personality
I recently came across this blog about understanding the Type A personality by Elizabeth Scott, a prolific blogger and author on Stress Management. According to the blog there are four behavioural characteristics of Type A Behaviour. Time Urgency and Impatience Free-Floating Hostility or Aggressiveness Competitiveness Strong Achievement-Orientation In addition the blog says there four physical characteristics that often accompany TAB: Facial Tension (Tight Lips, Clenched Jaw, Etc.) Ton.....
Read MoreThe Dark Side of Emotional Intelligence
This year has seen the popularisation of a new topic in Emotional Intelligence, namely that it has a dark side. For example in the 2 January 2014 edition of The Atlantic Adam Grant argues that if Emotional Intelligence is defined as the ability to recognize, understand, and manage emotions then Adolf Hitler, who spent years practicing his hand gestures and analyzing images of his movements allowed him to become an absolutely spellbinding public speaker, was one of its greatest practitioners. A.....
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