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Googling Leadership January 15, 2013 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance No comments

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.

Google Stock analysis This is not unlike the culture that created Google, where algorithmic expertise was prized above all ...

Leadership Lessons from Pixar’s near catastrophe September 12, 2012 Emotional Intelligence No comments

I am currently reading a story about Pixar Studios and the almost disastrous flop of Toy Story 2. Two thirds of the way through production after a preview with Disney executives, creative directors John Lassiter and Ed Catmill decided “good” wasn’t good enough. With less than a year before the project was due they did the unthinkable and threw it all in the trash...