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The Upside of Inverting Your Organization December 15, 2021 Affective Leadership, Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence, Peer Powered Performance

This is a MUST READ for anyone serious about giving your front line team FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY.

Recognized as the 2008 the “Number One Best Employer in India” by Hewitt Associates and Business Week. HCLT is propelled by a leadership style described by Fortune Magazine as “The World’s Most Modern Management” CEO Vineet Nayar has been singled out by the London Business School as “the leader of organizational Innovation”...

What is the difference between Change and Transformation? December 15, 2021 Association Insights, Emotional Intelligence

Change Begins when we see with a new Lens

I managed athletic clubs for many years in my twenties and thirties, and without exception those who were unsuccessful in accomplishing their goals tried to change what they did without first changing how they saw themselves. Changing what we do is only temporary unless we first manage to change what we see. Change happens from without, transformation happens from within. These are not “put on our happy face” platitudes, but the most important skills you will ever re-learn...

Create a NO JUDGMENT ZONE January 21, 2013 Affective Leadership, Emotional Intelligence No comments

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We love to judge. We appreciate being told we are a “good judge of character” or that we use “good judgment” and yet the idea of “being judged” is accompanied by a stench most foul. As I think about why we harbor such resentment, it seems that judging another implies an intentional desire to distort. It is interesting that a character trait we give such credence to when we are on the giving end is so absolutely disdainful when we are on the receiving side...

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...