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Emotional Intelligence: The Game-Changer in Leadership Development

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Components of Emotional Intelligence Emotional intelligence is generally broken down into four or five core components, each playing a distinct role in leadership development: Self-Awareness: The ability to recognize and understand one’s own emotions and how they affect thoughts and behavior.

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Boosting Team Spirit: Strategies for Improving Workplace Morale

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Recognizing Workplace Morale The vitality of your team’s spirit can be the driving force behind your organization’s success. By identifying signs of low morale and understanding its impact on productivity, you can begin the journey of transforming a potentially toxic workplace culture into a high-performing, collaborative team.

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Unleash Your Teams Strategic Potential: 10 Ways to Craft the Best Business Strategies

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It also provides a framework for decision-making that aligns with your company’s long-term objectives. The Role of Leadership in Strategy Development Leadership is at the heart of strategy development. As a leader, your vision sets the direction for the company’s future.

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Failure - learning or leavening?

Jeffrey Phillips

As with many other distinctions between large companies and startups, established products and new ideas, there are distinctions between types of failure. A bias against "failure" We're taught from an early age that failing at anything demonstrates weakness and unreliability.

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How to Keep Your Creative Team Fresh & Inspired

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So, think of challenges you can issue to your team. Sweeten the pot with a prize, like an extra week of vacation or a few shares of company stock. As long as it’s friendly, competition is no bad thing, and encouraging friendly competition is a good way to get ideas. These don’t have to be product-related, either.

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Why you need a faster, more nimble culture

Jeffrey Phillips

Change is happening so quickly and from so many different directions and dimensions that companies cannot create strategy without also preparing for and being ready to change. Companies cannot build static strategies that stretch over 3 or 5 years. Every company has a culture.

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How University Collaborations Can Drive Private Sector Innovation

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If diversity of thought is lacking, you’re left looking outside the company for varying perspectives — a likely reason why accelerators have grown in popularity. The typical goals of this sort of collaboration are better solutions and disrupting economic development — ultimately, it’s an early pipeline of new technologies.