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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

According to Dr. Travis Bradberry, CEOs and other executives have the lowest emotional intelligence skills of all management levels. These means they are not good at one-on-one conversations, cultural sensitivity, listening, team building, managing their emotions, managing conflict, or communicating vision and strategy clearly.

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As AI Makes More Decisions, the Nature of Leadership Will Change

Harvard Business

Meta-analytic studies reviewing 50 years of research suggest that personality traits such as curiosity, extraversion, and emotional stability are twice as important as IQ — the benchmark metric for reasoning capability — when it comes to predicting leadership effectiveness. Insight Center. Sponsored by SAS.