{"id":1696,"date":"2014-03-22T15:01:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T04:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=1696"},"modified":"2014-03-22T15:01:16","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T04:01:16","slug":"goleman-the-truth-about-what-makes-a-great-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/?p=1696","title":{"rendered":"Goleman: The Truth About What Makes A Great Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leaders need an\u00a0inner<\/i>\u00a0<\/strong>focus to be aware of their own feelings, values and intuitions, and to manage themselves well. A focus on\u00a0others<\/i>\u00a0<\/strong>allows a leader to read people well, which is key to managing relationships \u2013 the art of leading itself. And an\u00a0outer<\/i>\u00a0<\/strong>focus lets a leader understand the larger forces and systems that she must navigate and to determine the best strategy going forward.<\/p>\n

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Daniel Goleman: The Truth About What Makes A Great Leader<\/h1>\n<\/hgroup>\n
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I recently had the pleasure of catching up again with\u00a0Daniel Goleman, who is an internationally known psychologist that lectures frequently to professional groups, business audiences, and on college campuses. Goleman reported on the brain and behavioral sciences for The New York Times for many years. His 1995 book,\u00a0<\/span>Emotional Intelligence\u00a0<\/em>was on The New York Times bestseller list for a year-and-a-half; with more than five million copies in print worldwide in 30 languages, and has been a best seller in many countries.\u00a0The Harvard<\/span>Business<\/a>\u00a0Review will announce in their\u00a0<\/span>April issue<\/a>\u00a0that his article \u201c<\/span>The Focused Leader<\/a>\u201d\u00a0won the McKinsey award, which recognizes their best articles of the year. That article was derived from his book,\u00a0<\/span>Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence<\/a>,<\/i>\u201d and that excerpt \u2013 along with his key leadership articles from business journals \u2013 is included in his new collection\u00a0<\/span>What Makes a Leader: Why Emotional Intelligence Matters<\/a>.\u00a0<\/i>In the following brief interview, Goleman talks about the types of leadership characteristics that are most important in the business world, the difference between smart and wise, the leadership triple focus, and what the real definition of leader really is.<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Dan Schawbel:\u00a0<\/b>What types of leadership characteristics typically yield better business results?<\/p>\n

Daniel Goleman:<\/strong>\u00a0Studies conducted by companies evaluating their own executives have proven that the top 10% of performers displayed superior competencies in emotional intelligence, rather than in purely cognitive thinking.\u00a0Capabilities like self-confidence and initiative; bouncing back from setbacks and staying cool under stress; empathy and powerful communication, collaboration; and teamwork all make for better business results.<\/p>\n

<\/b>Schawbel:\u00a0<\/b>What\u2019s the difference between smart and wise and why does it matter?<\/p>\n

Goleman:<\/strong>\u00a0In my book\u00a0Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence<\/a><\/i>\u00a0I make the distinction between\u00a0leaders<\/a>\u00a0who are \u201csmart,\u201d in the sense of good at running a business and getting quarterly results, and \u201cwise,\u201d meaning leaders who have a larger sense of the social and environmental systems we operate within, as well as an expanded view of stakeholders. The smart leader can get results in the short-term, the wise leader can net results in both the short and the long-term.<\/p>\n

<\/b>Schawbel:\u00a0<\/b>What should someone who isn\u2019t passionate about their work do?<\/p>\n

Goleman:<\/strong>\u00a0I like Howard Gardner\u2019s concept of\u00a0\u201cgood work,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0which combines what you\u2019re excellent at doing with what engages you and feels meaningful. Someone who is not passionate about the work they do now might consider how to make a portion of their job \u201cgood work,\u201d or how to enlarge that portion over the course of their career.<\/p>\n

<\/b>Schawbel:<\/b>\u00a0Can you discuss the leader\u2019s \u201ctriple focus\u201d?<\/p>\n

Goleman:<\/strong>\u00a0Leaders need an\u00a0inner<\/i>\u00a0focus to be aware of their own feelings, values and intuitions, and to manage themselves well. A focus on\u00a0others<\/i>\u00a0allows a leader to read people well, which is key to managing relationships \u2013 the art of leading itself. And an\u00a0outer<\/i>\u00a0focus lets a leader understand the larger forces and systems that she must navigate and to determine the best strategy going forward.<\/p>\n

<\/b>Schawbel:\u00a0<\/b>Do you think that managers should all be leaders or that all leaders are managers and why?<\/p>\n

Goleman:<\/strong>\u00a0I view anyone with a sphere of influence as a \u201cleader,\u201d whether or not she has that explicit job description. In that sense every manager is a leader already, or should be.<\/p>\n

Dan Schawbel is a workplace speaker and the New York Times best-selling author of Promote Yourself. Subscribe to his\u00a0free monthly newsletter<\/a>\u00a0for more career tips.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Leaders need an\u00a0inner\u00a0focus to be aware of their own feelings, values and intuitions, and to manage themselves well. A focus on\u00a0others\u00a0allows a leader to read people well, which is key to managing relationships \u2013 the art of leading itself. And an\u00a0outer\u00a0focus lets a leader understand the larger forces and systems that she must navigate and … Continue reading Goleman: The Truth About What Makes A Great Leader<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-management-and-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1696"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1698,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions\/1698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.panicola.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}