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Are You Assessing Executive Capabilities to Close Key Gaps?

LSA Global

Creating an aligned and high performance culture that sets the stage for peak performance is about a lot more than just designing a corporate strategy and deploying the resources to deliver on it. Accurately assessing executive capabilities should alleviate bad executive hiring and promotion decisions.

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Understanding Yourself to Lead Others Better

Organizational Talent Consulting

In today's increasingly complex and culturally-diverse workplace , leaders that are able to perceive, assess, and regulate their own and others' emotions accurately are able to better leverage diversity and create team cohesion⁠. The impact of emotional intelligence on the accuracy of self-awareness and leadership performance.

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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

Yet, their work cultures produce 85% disengaged employees. According to Dr. Travis Bradberry, CEOs and other executives have the lowest emotional intelligence skills of all management levels. CEOs focus on data, facts, figures, and metrics. For example, CEOs pay is 399 times more than the average worker.

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7 Traits that Unlock the Powerful Presence of Servant Leaders

Rick Conlow

Furthermore, Daniel Goleman’s work with emotional intelligence suggests that a key competency is “people skills”. How well does the manager master personal and emotional self- control? In fact, research shows that purpose-driven businesses excel in a variety of business metrics better than others. It is a result.

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Top 10 Criteria of an Effective Change Catalyst

LSA Global

Culture change challenges. The same research found that senior leadership support, employee engagement and interest, clear goals and metrics, and effective internal communication most heavily contributed to successful organizational change. The biggest barriers to success were: Lack of investment or resources. Competing priorities.

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What You Can Do to Improve Ethics at Your Company

Harvard Business

More often the dilemmas were the result of competing interests, misaligned incentives, clashing cultures. The lure of incentives are a problem in boardrooms too: Bonus payments and executive share schemes are often based on short-term business metrics, which can be counter to long-term success. Cross-cultural differences.

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2016 Top 10 U.S. MBA programs for Management Consulting

Management Consulted

Social intelligence and emotional intelligence, as mentioned above, is very important in consulting; without it you won’t be able to please or land clients, and won’t be as effective of a team member. Still, while Stanford may not emphasize teamwork like other top B-schools, it is an important part of the culture.