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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership

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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership Havard Business Review The EI skills are: • Self-awareness—knowing one’s strengths, weaknesses, drives, values, and impact on others • Self-regulation—controlling or redirecting disruptive impulses and moods • Motivation—relishing achievement for its own sake • Empathy—understanding other people’s emotional makeup • Social skill—building rapport with others to move them in desired directions Such self-knowledge often shows itself in the hiring process. Ask a candidate to describe a time he got carried away by his feelings and did something he later regretted. Self-aware candidates will be frank in admitting to failure—and will often tell their tales with a smile. One of the hallmarks of self-awareness is a self-deprecating sense of humor Biological impulses drive our emotions. We cannot do away with them—but we can do much to manage them. Self-regulation, which is like an ongoing inner conversation, is the component of emotio...