Emotional Intelligence: The Shot Felt 'Round the World?

Written by Susan Dunn, The EQ Coach


I just hung uprepparttar phone with Li-Yan, who wants me to come to Malaysia and present a workshop with her on emotional intelligence for businesses.

She quit her corporate job there, because she foundrepparttar 105508 work environment stifling, unethical and demoralizing. Now she wants to help businesses in Malaysia change to a more emotionally intelligent culture.

We agree that when they do, they won’t lose exceptional workers like Li-Yan.

Tom McDorman , managing director of Western Digital (Malaysia) Sdn. Blh.D, believes emotional intelligence-style management techniques” can bolster faltering Asian manufacturers, according to an article inrepparttar 105509 Wall Street Journal. When he began cultivatingrepparttar 105510 ‘soft’ side of his workers, productivity at his Kuala Lumpur factory jumped 20%.

In England, Greg Syke,repparttar 105511 director general ofrepparttar 105512 BBC, was accused of being over confident and “lacking emotional intelligence” by a Labour peer. Lord Lipsey, then tipped as a board member ofrepparttar 105513 new media watchdog, Ofcom, said that Dyke’s instincts are “to colonise, to compete and destroy.”

Neal Ashkanasy, a professor atrepparttar 105514 University of Queensland, Australia,is also a proponent of emotional intelligence. He says “It’s an easy target in terms ofrepparttar 105515 softness and fluffiness, but failure to recognize emotions inrepparttar 105516 workplace [can] reflect in a demoralized workforce.”

In April, an Emotional Intelligence Conference is scheduled in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where IIR will challenge participants to “learn aboutrepparttar 105517 most significant innovation in people management inrepparttar 105518 last 25 years.” They’ll be showing a film where a commercial organization suffers a major business setback, not related torepparttar 105519 business strategy, but becauserepparttar 105520 people in key positions didn’t have appropriate levels of emotional competency.

An article on an Australian website begins, “Top leaders are getting in touch with their emotions and those of their staff as intuition and emotional intelligence becomerepparttar 105521 hottest management buzzwords.”

Failure is Not an Option

Written by Diane Hughes


I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that online businesses -- just like brick and mortar businesses -- have a very high failure rate for startups. Ever wonder why that is? There are several business consultants, success gurus, and motivational experts who can tell you. The problem is: Most of us don’t listen.

How many times have we heardrepparttar "success secrets" ofrepparttar 105507 multimillion-dollar pros? Countless times we have all been preached to about setting goals, having a defined plan, giving it all we’ve got, and aiming high. Yet still, take a look around. The statistics of small business failures have not changed. Inrepparttar 105508 first five years of starting a new business,repparttar 105509 odds say that you’ll fail.

Ready forrepparttar 105510 good news? There is one thing I can tell you -- from personal experience, and fromrepparttar 105511 experience of well-known, successful online business owners that I know. More important than setting goals, more than following a plan, more than shooting forrepparttar 105512 moon, is your mindset. Ask people who have succeeded online how they did it, and they are sure to tell you that they had to. That’s right -- they HAD to. Why? Because failure is not an option.

When you set your sights on something as grand as starting your own business, you simply have to haverepparttar 105513 mindset that, regardless of what happens, you will not allow yourself to fail.

When difficulties come,repparttar 105514 "failure is not an option" attitude will drive you to overcome them. When things aren’t going as you originally planned (and many times they won’t), "failure is not an option" will keep you from folding. When everybody else tells you that you can’t make it, you will be able to tell them you can because "failure is not an option."

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