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The Rise of AI Makes Emotional Intelligence More Important

Harvard Business

Determine a recommended course of action. Implement the course of action. Doctors perform tests, analyze the results, interpret the results to make a diagnosis, plan a course of treatment, and then work with the patient to make this treatment plan a reality. Invest in developing your emotional intelligence.

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Automation is coming! Are you ready for it?

Tom Spencer

Robots should be able to perform these kinds of tasks efficiently at scale with few mistakes. The best one can hope for in a complex situation is to understand some of the dynamics, monitor the situation closely, and adjust course as new information surfaces. Disagreement about what needs to be done is rare. Answers don’t exist.

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Help Employees Create Knowledge — Not Just Share It

Harvard Business

This isn’t surprising given that this is the primary focus of educational institutions, training programs, and leadership development courses. The obvious focus here: efficiency at scale. In an organization focused on scalable efficiency, the focus of learning is on sharing explicit knowledge.

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Synergy Unleashed: The Power of Great Teamwork

Rick Conlow

Decreased productivity: Bad teamwork can lead to decreased productivity as team members may struggle to work together efficiently. Of course, this is ignorance and not a viable excuse. Research shows that executive leadership has the lowest level of emotional intelligence and people skills of all layers of management.

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How to Use Mindfulness to Increase Your Team’s Creativity

Harvard Business

With this same group of people over the course of five weeks, we administered a group creative task and found that the meditating group identified double the number of creative ideas as the control group. The group process was noticeably different, where the meditating group was 121% more able to build on the ideas of others.

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Why The Best Hospitals Are Managed by Doctors

Harvard Business

The emphasis on patient-centered care and efficiency in the delivery of clinical outcomes means that physicians are now being prepared for leadership. The findings of course do not prove that doctors make better leaders, though the results are surely consistent with that claim. ” But this is changing. The Best Hospitals.

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Coping with the Effects of Emotionally Difficult Work

Harvard Business

Of course, we can’t draw firm conclusions about causation since these were both qualitative studies, but together, our findings suggest that adopting a help-giving orientation when carrying out necessary evils at work can help those on both ends. To counteract that, workers must focus on self-care.

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