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Self-Awareness Can Help Leaders More Than an Mba Can

By Rasmus Hougaard, Jacqueline Carter and Marissa Afton — 2018

Approximately 40% of CEOs are MBAs. Many large-scale studies have found that leadership based solely on MBA-trained logic is not always enough for delivering long-term financial and cultural results, and that it is often detrimental to an organization’s productivity. Self-awareness, on the other hand, is essential. It’s not enough for CEOs to lead with prevailing business theories. Leaders need to convince others of their vision and make them feel comfortable with change. And they need to do so authentically.

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Discipline, Routine and Focus Can Create an Amazing Life: Jay Shetty

Jay Shetty on his latest book, his experiences living as a monk in India and the necessity of routine in one’s life.

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Navneet Vyasan
2020
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The Importance of Passion as a Business Leader

Everywhere we go, we see people who are caught doing something that they don’t care about and struggling to get through each day. Not everyone falls into this web, though. For those who are passionate about what they do, work can actually be an exciting and invigorating experience.

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Eugene Gold
2019
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The Authenticity Paradox

Authenticity has become the gold standard for leadership. But as INSEAD professor Herminia Ibarra argues, a simplistic understanding of what authenticity means can limit leaders’ growth and impact.

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Herminia Ibarra
2015
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7 Practical Ways to Improve Your Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence measures our ability to perceive our own emotions, as well as the emotions of others, and to manage them in a productive and healthy way.

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Hannah Braime
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5 Skills to Help You Develop Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence is a set of skills you can get better at with practice. Here are five skills you can cultivate to make you a more emotionally intelligent person.

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Mark Manson
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Why Curiosity Is an Essential Leadership Trait

In a disruptive world, leaders should be curious to succeed. Since time immemorial, the most celebrated innovations, such as self-driving cars, electricity, and computers, to mention a few, were developed out of curiosity.

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Rob Urbach
2020
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The Difference Between Grown-Ups and “Adult-Children”

Still clinging to the fears and fury of childhood? You can unarrest your development once and for all.

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Martha Beck
2020
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How Tony Robbins Created an Empire by Being the Most Confident Man on Earth: The World's Most Famous Self-Help Entrepreneur Lets Us into His Lair.

If Tony Robbins told you to jump off a bridge, would you do it? Marc Benioff would. He did.

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Inc.
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What If You Could Have Direct Influence Over Your Destiny and Your Health? Discoveries in Quantum Science Reveal It’s Possible. Here’s How…

You may know certain people who seem to magically be able to manifest almost anything they want in life.

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Sue Morter
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After Shock

According to philosopher and business consultant Peter Koestenbaum, the “shock of death” can teach us the secrets of leading a successful life — if we have the courage to learn.

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Polly LaBarre
2001
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