My Hub History of Activity

From David Taylor's Monday newsletter. you can subscribe to it using the link at the end.

Richard Branson has just published a new book, Business Stripped Bare. Hot off the press, here are a couple of insights from it:

“Inspire people to think like entrepreneurs, and whatever you do, treat them like adults. The hardest taskmaster of all is a person’s own conscience, so the more responsibility you give people, the better they will work for you.�

Re the recent post in The Hub quoting Daniel Goleman on how CEOs mostly get sacked because of lack of EQ/Emotional Intelligence, not lack of IQ... 

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“When Claudio Fernando-Araoz, head of research for the executive recruitment firm Egon Zehnder International, looked at CEOs who had succeeded and those who had failed, he found the same pattern in America, Germany and Japan: those who failed were hired on the basis of their drive, IQ, and business expertise – but fired for lack of emotional intelligence. They simply could not win over, or sometimes even just get along with, their board of directors, or their direct reports, or others on whom their own success depended.�

I've been part of an Amazon discussion group on 'Who Are The Fresh Voices in Leadership Theory' and it's recently become quite active and interesting. So, click on the link if you want to read what they are saying.