“You working late again?” The housekeeper asked, as she pulled her garbage-can-on-wheels into the computer room and gave me her warm smile. “Someone needs to process these studies,” I replied with a grateful grin. I was relieved to finally see a friendly face. I didn’t confess that I had nowhere else to be. It . . . → Read More: How to Embrace Diversity
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 Comments are closed  Diversity, Empowering engagement, Empowering motivate teamwork, Global Leadership, Rational understand people Leadership is not possible without followship. Research by Stephen Reicher and his associates demonstrates that strong leadership flows from a symbiotic relationship between leaders and followers. (1) This new psychology of leadership suggests that the most effective leaders understand and monitor the values and the opinions of their followers, thereby enabling a productive dialogue . . . → Read More: Why Leaders Must Be Like Their Followers Traffic lights are also called signals because they provide information that directs our future action. They “signal” us to stop, go, or in the case of yellow… hit the gas and race through the intersection. (Maybe I don’t have that last signal quite right.) Emotions are signals too. They contain information that communicates direction. . . . → Read More: Leading by Understanding the Emotional Future Comments are closed EI, emotion, Emotional Intelligence, emotions, Rational know thyself & others, Rational understand people Bill is gone? I thought to myself. I shouldn’t be surprised. He was great at putting a project scope together. He had the most elegant project charts in the company. He was even a good guy… once you got to know him. I later learned that Bill was fired from Siemens because he was . . . → Read More: Leading by Perceiving Emotions 2 comments - (Comments are closed) EI, emotion, Emotional Intelligence, emotions, Rational know thyself & others, Rational understand people Many years ago, I was helping a colleague set up for a very important presentation. As guests streamed into the meeting room, I became increasingly frustrated because I couldn’t get the two slide projectors focused (Slide projectors? It was a long time ago). Finally, just before the presentation was about to begin, one of . . . → Read More: Leading by Using Emotions Comments are closed EI, emotion, Emotional Intelligence, emotions, Rational know thyself & others, Rational understand people |
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