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The Emotionally Intelligent Leader
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The Emotionally Intelligent Leader

by Daniel Goleman
July 2019
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
128 pages
1h 53m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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The Focused Leader

Aprimary task of leadership is to direct attention. To do so, leaders must learn to focus their own attention. When we speak about being focused, we commonly mean thinking about one thing while filtering out distractions. But a wealth of recent research in neuroscience shows that we focus in many ways, for different purposes, drawing on different neural pathways—some of which work in concert, while others tend to stand in opposition. Grouping these modes of attention into three broad buckets—focusing on yourself, focusing on others, and focusing on the wider world—sheds new light on the practice of many essential leadership skills. Focusing inward and focusing constructively on others helps leaders cultivate the primary elements ...

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ISBN: 9781633697348