Leading with Emotional Intelligence: Hands-On ... - always yours

ARE YOU A STAR PERFORMER OR JUST AVERAGE? 57
• Communication
• Inspirational leadership
• Influence
• Building bonds
• Developing others
• Teamwork and collaboration
Derailers
• No major ones noticed
EI Ratings: Earvin “Magic” Johnson
PERSONAL
SOCIAL
Understanding Self Others
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Managing Self Others
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LACK OF SELF-CONTROL AND THE INABILITY
TO DELAY GRATIFICATION
It is apparent that lack of impulse control or self-control is a
common theme for leaders who have derailed. This weakness is contradictory
to our need for someone who is consistent, steady, and
grounded. If a leader lacks self-control, he or she becomes unpredictable
and untrustworthy. No one knows when or to what the
leader may react. In primitive terms, this kind of person becomes
unsafe and even dangerous to others and the organization. Today
it is more and more apparent how blind spots in the personal competencies
of executives’ Emotional Intelligence have led to the greed,
lying, and manipulations inside major corporations such as Enron,
Adelphia, and WorldCom, to name a few. “It feels like almost every