Leadership Suits the High-FF
Luckily for those around me I am marginally better today, not least because the world is moving the way of the High-FF when it comes to leadership. According to corporate transformation expert Manfred Kets de Vries in The Leadership Mystique (2001), business leaders have traditionally been trained to focus on “hard data and cold logic”. “Soft” matters such as emotion and intuition are considered immeasurable in terms of output so, in management terms, irrelevant. And, indeed, emotional issues tend to be underlying and difficult to see, and therefore especially difficult to manage.
Yet ignoring soft matters can harm your prospects as a leader, says Kets de Vries.
“Emotional intelligence plays a vital role in the leadership ...
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