The Emotional Intelligence of Don Draper
The fifth series of Mad Men is now being shown. I must confess that in the past six months I have become a Mad Men addict. I had actually missed seeing the first four series as they were televised but on an international plane trip I watched several past episodes and became hooked. I set myself the goal of watching all the episodes, hired out the DVDs and I am nearly at the end of series four. While the series goes through the standard life cycle themes of hatching, matching and dispatching it .....
Read MoreThe Emotional Intelligence of Steve Jobs
I, probably like many business people, went to a talk last night about how to use social media in business. The presentation started with an obligatory picture of Steve Jobs and then went on to say you could rate how important Steve Jobs was because there were 10,000 tweets per second about him. (The hidden subtext was that was how many people found out about the death to Steve Jobs ie Twitter is important.) Then next slide showed a very interesting graphic on the global mourning (via Twit.....
Read MoreHow Much EQ Does Steve Jobs Really Have (Part 2)
Fortune magazine has just named Steve Jobs as the CEO of the Decade. The edition features a number of stories about Steve Jobs including this wonderful article about the 21 Jobs-related books that have been published. Besides a terrific quote "He would have made an excellent king of France" by a former colleague, the author defines the books as falling into one of three genres: Genius: when he is developing some new product. Creep: discussing his personality flaws when he was ousted from Appl.....
Read MoreHow Much EQ Does Steve Jobs Really Have (Part 1)
What kicked off this blog was a excellent article by Fiona Smith in the Australian Financial Review (16 November 2009): The downside of being nice. The thrust of the article was that while every management book in recent years has stressed the importance of workplace harmony, there is a counter argument personified by Steve Jobs. Fiona quotes how Bob Sutton describes Steve Jobs as the successful archetypal asshole in his book The No Asshole Rule. I then went on to google Bob Sutton+Steve Jobs a.....
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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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