Leaders everywhere have challenges. Some challenges are unique and temporary, but most are common and ongoing. These latter […]
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In my philosophies you will have come across me talking about ‘the three selfs’: The ought self – […]
Who Chose Your Path in Life?
During my career as a strategic performance consultant I often found myself in negotiations with my clients vendors […]
How the FBI Uses Emotions in Negotiations
Over the years there have been several ‘decision making frameworks’ that have appeared in leadership training, however, regardless […]
4 Things Every Executive Must Know Before Making an Important ...
Well actually, the headline read “Bringing emotional intelligence to self-driven cars”, but the suggestion is the same. Self-driven […]
EQ Solves Problems with Driverless Cars
We all create a connection to our personal insight in various ways. Some methods resonate with us, some […]
Inspiration – Connecting to Our Personal Insight
I was just reading an article, The Rise and Rise of Soft Skills, and it prompted me to […]
Are We Expecting the Perfect Employee?
I was watching a documentary the other night that reminded me of a key discovery of ‘The Dunedin […]
The Secret to Success for Your Children
Humans are emotional beings. Our emotional state influences all aspects of our life, our relationships, our performance, and […]
The Power of Emotions in Leadership Decisions
We are all born as unique individuals, then throughout our childhood and early adult years we are layered […]
The Cost of Being Yourself as a Leader
I was thinking this morning about the way society seems to be regulating itself down to the lowest […]
How Much Empathy and Compassion is Too Much?
Currently, there is a lot of media claiming that highly intelligent people are more successful and make better […]
Taking a Balanced View on EQ in Leadership
“Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself”. John Wooden There a millions […]
Why You Should Become Friends with Adversity
Corporate leaders have come to consider change as a constant, but the great paradox is that change itself […]
How Change is Changing – And What We Need to ...
According to decision making expert Gary Klein; “managers and staff engaged in enterprises based on traditional business models […]
The Most Commonly Forgotten Critical Step in Decision Making
An interesting angle on emotional intelligence in evaluating risk – through the lens of climbing, by APU instructor […]
EQ Lessons from the skill of Climbing
The relationship between stress and performance is important to understand. We all have a stress ‘baseline’; a point […]
How to Find Your Optimal Level of Stress
We all know that constant change is the new norm; and being a ‘norm’ doesn’t make it any […]