Daniel Goleman and Richard Boyatzis published a highly readable article on Social Intelligence and the Biology of Leadership in the Harvard Business Review last September. Their work on emotional intelligence brought them fame and they developed their Primal Leadership model based on that. The recent breakthroughs in neuroscience improve our understanding of what happens in [...]
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Validation – the movie
A while ago I wrote an entry about Positive Feedback Loops. This video tells a story of the power of giving people positive feedback. And, if you watch carefully, you might even notice Angelina Jolie’s brother in a supporting role.
So, take 16 minutes out of the pre-Christmas rush and enjoy!
Meeting Interruptus
Meeting interruptus is a condition that seems to affect most of the meeting population: either people take on a distracted look (waiting for that phone call); or they answer any call that comes – taking five minutes to explain that they’re in a meeting and can’t talk now; or they blackberry; or they use meeting [...]
Getting out of Hot Water
Sooner or later, most people get into hot water using e-mail. In my case it was sooner. Many years ago, I typed up my personal notes (including “humorous” asides on the participants) from an EU project meeting as an informal e-mail to our project leader, who had asked for my input [...]
“Social Intelligence” by Daniel Goleman
Daniel Goleman became well-known through his book Emotional Intelligence (EI) in the mid 1990’s. There he explored the impact and importance of emotions and – later on – their influence on leadership. In his new book he takes us on a tour of major developments in neuroscience since EI that show us how our brain’s [...]
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