Archive for Goals, Values, & Strategies

“He impaired his vision by holding the object too close. He might see, perhaps, one or two points with unusual clearness, but in so doing he, necessarily, lost sight of the matter as a whole.” – C. Auguste Dupin in The Murders in the Rue Morgue. In l974 I was recruited out of The Harvard [...]

Emotional intelligence includes having clarity of intention. Having clarity of intention results in more energy and resourcefulness. And that means more resilience in the face of problems, change, and turbulence. Resilience means we can handle turbulence and bounce back. To be resilient and resourceful, we need to ask ourselves in each new situation: – What [...]

Emotional intelligence has many faces. Sometimes a metaphor captures as aspect of emotional intelligence in a way we can remember. Here is my metaphor of the resilient tree. I was hiking along a river and noticed several large trees that had no earth underneath them. The river had washed it away. But some wily trees [...]

When I was an MBA student at the Harvard Business School, professors rewarded strategic thinking. I excelled in strategic thinking and was therefore able to do well even though I was poor in math. In each case we needed to clarify what really mattered to an executive and the company. I could do this exceptionally [...]

Primal leadership frees the best in people. Daniel Goleman in his book, Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence, Harvard Business School Press, 2002, on p ix, asserts that, “The fundamental task of leaders, we argue, is to prime good feeling in those they lead. That occurs when a leader creates resonance — a [...]