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Confessions of an EQ FAILURE December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence

I recently “pressured” my parents, who are well into their “golden years”, into leaving their beloved Pacific Northwest to live near us here in Boise. My wife and I spent months creating as much space and comfort as possible so we could all live together comfortably for the five months it would take for their house to be built. Our cohabitation lasted three weeks. I failed not just miserably but spectacularly. I intellectually knew what to do but in the heat of the moments it seemed ...

Are you a Champion for Change? December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance

There are always payoffs for the lies we tell ourselves and the easiest to maintain are those we share with others which carries the appropriate scientific title of “Bandwagon Effect”. The Bandwagon that I had worked hard to be part of was that of the Charismatic Champion of Change. The fallacy was that regardless of my mastery of the topic or skills as a professional communicator that change does not happen from the top down or outside in but must be generated by champions from within.

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Is “Understanding” your Enemy December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence

The last several years I have been hooked on the “Dans” – Pink, Kahneman and Ariely. They all seem to come around to something Malcom Gladwell shared in an interview for The Costco Connection. He said “my last three books in particular have made me suspicious of the way that all of us as human beings react to the world.” He went on to say “The assumptions we carry around in our heads aren’t very good. Our first impressions of things can sometimes be really terrible.” His new...

Are you using Power or Force? December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence One comment

Every picture we create in our minds has a magnetic power. These “Attractive Powers” have been measured and quantified through the use of behavioral kinesiology as described in books including Power Vs. Force by Dr. David Hawkins M.D., Ph.D. Power is universal and energizing, while the use of Force always creates its own resistance and is a negative drain on ourselves, our organizations and the world as a whole...

Freeing Ourselves from Ourselves December 15, 2021 Emotional Intelligence, Spirit at Work