Category Peer Powered Performance
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Inoculations of Inspiration or Tools for Transformation
April 4, 2013
Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance, Positive Deviance 
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Over the past thirty years as a manager and particularly in the last fifteen as a professional consultant and keynote speaker I have built a career around the conviction that it just takes one person, one moment of insight to change a life forever. There are many people who over my career for whom I have made a profound difference. There are also many more who have been entertained, educated and even inspired for weeks or months who eventually revert to old habits of thinking, old ways of se...
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Googling Leadership
January 15, 2013
Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance -
Over the past fifteen years I have worked with some amazing managers. They are dedicated, hard working and with few exceptions most were promoted into their roles primarily because of their technical expertise. This is not to say that many don’t have exceptional leadership skills, but that “soft skills” are often viewed as being less important than their more quantifiable counterparts.
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This is not unlike the culture that created Google, where algorithmic expertise was prized above all ...