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

Harvard Business

Esther is a well-liked manager of a small team. 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. So much for emotional intelligence , she’s starting to think.

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Transitioning from Management Consulting to Corporate Strategy/M&A – the Interview Process

Tom Spencer

Many management consultants hardly complete two or three years in their jobs before they realize that there’s more to life than consulting. BizOps / Strategy & Operations at tech firms. Helping the organization to identify and manage strategic uncertainty. BizOps / Strategy & Operations at Tech firms. Conclusion.

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4 Ways to Improve Your Leadership Communication Effectiveness

Organizational Talent Consulting

Build Your Emotional Intelligence. Emotional intelligence is considered the ability to recognize, express, comprehend and regulate emotions. Your degree of self-awareness , self-management, motivation, empathy and interpersonal skills make up your emotional intelligence.

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Automation is coming! Are you ready for it?

Tom Spencer

In China, a restaurant has opened in Guangdong Province that is fully automated, using robots to manage everything from taking orders to preparing and serving the food. Your level of performance at work will also depend on the context that you are operating in, which we might classify into 4 quadrants: Simple. Complicated.

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The Upgraded Leadership Operating System

Cheryl Cran

Traditional training modules on leadership skills, communication skills, change management skills, emotional intelligence are useful tools to elevate leadership ability. What does it mean to ‘upgrade the leadership operating system’?

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How to De-Risk Working with a Freelance Management Consultant

Comatch

The world is changing rapidly, and the way that companies operate within it needs to shift as well. More than ever, organizations are using independent experts and freelance management consultants to address critical challenges. workforce and 14% of the European workforce operate as freelance professionals. .