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Category Archives: Emotional Intelligence
4 Tools for Finding Your Way: A Guide for Women Leaders
As a woman leader, the tools you need to navigate your career and build your leadership skills may look slightly different than those for men. According to the Center for Creative Leadership’s Sara King, it’s especially important for women leaders … 
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My Top 3 Leader Resolutions for 2013
Like many people, I use the entry into a new year as a time to assess what I am grateful about and to make proclamations about what I’d like to do differently this year. Here are my top three leader … READ MORE
Integrity: Don’t Reach the Top Without It
Several things have happened this year in a short amount of time: Nobody was elected into the baseball hall of fame, despite people like Roger Clemens, Barry Bonds, Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire and Rafael Palmeiro being eligible (and all of … READ MORE
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Tagged barry bonds, baseball hall of fame, Center for Creative Leadership, CEO, character, Integrity, lance armstrong, manti te'o, mark mcgwire, sports, tiger woods
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Why was George Bailey ‘the richest man in town?’
Can a movie about a businessman help us with recent events? We all know the story and you can see it on TVs anywhere on the dial. George Bailey, depicted in Frank Capra’s masterpiece, “It’s a Wonderful Life,” is a … READ MORE
Travel Well, Travel Light
Over the years, I’ve honed an approach to travel that works well for me. That is no small feat because I have two seemingly conflicting interests. One is to travel as cheaply and as lightly as possible. The other is … READ MORE
In Brené Brown’s most recent book Daring Greatly she debunks the myths of vulnerability. Myth #4 is “We Can Go It Alone”. Not needing help and doing it alone is confused as strong leadership in many organizational cultures. Standing alone … READ MORE
Betrayed in the Workplace? 7 Steps for Healing
A co-worker breaks a confidence. A teammate takes credit for your work. Your boss is chronically late. Another reorganization – and another round of layoffs – is impending. It’s easy to see how business as usual can feel like betrayal as … READ MORE
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Social Identity and the Act of Doing Nothing
A colleague of mine recently wanted to incorporate content from a book I recently edited into a session she was facilitating. Over the course of a multi-session program, issues about oppression and inequity were coming to the forefront. It was if … READ MORE
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Sometimes it is the Journey that Matters
You never know when or where you might receive good insight. My car was in the shop and I had to ride in the ‘courtesy van,’ a gaudy red and white minivan, plastered with the name of the automobile dealer. … READ MORE
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Social Connections and the Power of Happiness
A couple of weekends ago, I watched a special on PBS called “This Emotional Life” and one of the pieces of research they featured was on social connections and happiness. The research was conducted by Dr. Nicholas A. Christakis of Harvard, … READ MORE
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