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Without Emotional Intelligence, Mindfulness Doesn’t Work

Harvard Business

Mindfulness has become the corporate fad du jour , a practice widely touted as a fast-track to better leadership. The benefits attributed to this kind of practice range from stronger relationships with others to higher levels of leadership performance. But the improvements themselves were in the realm of emotional intelligence.

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Is Your Emotional Intelligence Authentic, or Self-Serving?

Harvard Business

It’s possible to fake emotional intelligence. Similar to knockoffs of luxury watches or handbags, there are emotions and actions that look like the real thing but really aren’t. Given that most people aren’t sociopaths, in my experience, the more common misuses of emotional intelligence are subconscious.

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5 Ways to Develop Talent for an Unpredictable Future

Harvard Business

We may not know what tomorrow’s jobs will look like, but we can safely assume that when people are more curious, emotionally intelligent, resilient, driven, and intelligent, they will generally be better equipped to learn what is needed to perform those jobs, and provide whatever human value technology cannot replace.

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The Rise of AI Makes Emotional Intelligence More Important

Harvard Business

A human being, however, is still best suited to jobs like spurring the leadership team to action, avoiding political hot buttons, and identifying savvy individuals to lead change. Recognize your strengths and weaknesses when it comes to emotional intelligence. Invest in developing your emotional intelligence.

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How to Find the Exact Words that Attract Your Clients (and Gets them Excited to Work with You)

Consulting Matters

Related Article: "7 Reasons Why Your Client Aren't Getting it When you Write and Talk About What You Do". This article is for you. Or, you may be mystified why most leadership development doesn't seem to stick. Yes, emotions. Emotional intelligence [has become] simply new jargon for discussing our emotions.

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Emotional Intelligence Has 12 Elements. Which Do You Need to Work On?

Harvard Business

Her manager feels lucky to have such an easy direct report to work with and often compliments Esther on her high levels of emotional intelligence, or EI. And Esther indeed counts EI as one of her strengths; she’s grateful for at least one thing she doesn’t have to work on as part of her leadership development.

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How to Boost Your (and Others’) Emotional Intelligence

Harvard Business

Among the various core ingredients of talent and career success, few personal qualities have received more attention in the past decade than emotional intelligence (EQ), the ability to identify and manage your own and others’ emotions. Emotional Intelligence. 3 Ways to Better Understand Your Emotions.