1st Edition
Ego vs. EQ How Top Leaders Beat 8 Ego Traps With Emotional Intelligence
By Jen Shirkani
Copyright 2013
218 Pages
by
Routledge
In EGO vs. EQ, Jen Shirkani shares strategies for using emotional intelligence (EQ) as a tool to avoid career derailment. The executive leadership failure rate is high: two in five CEOs fail in the first 18 months on the job. This book teaches you how to identify the most common reasons for leadership ineffectiveness, and provides tools to raise your EQ, prevent leadership lapses, and avoid... Read more
Acknowledgments, Introduction The Eight Ego Traps, Ego Trap 1 Ignoring Feedback You Don’t Like, Ego Trap 2 Believing Your Technical Skills Trump Your Leadership Skills, Ego Trap 3 Surrounding Yourself with More of You, Ego Trap 4 Not Letting Go of Control, Ego Trap 5 Being Blind to Your Downstream Impact, Ego Trap 6 Underestimating How Much You Are Being Watched, Ego Trap 7 Losing Touch with the Frontline Experience, Ego Trap 8 Relapsing Back to Your Old Ways, Conclusion, Appendix Identifying Your Ego Blind Spots, Endnotes, References, Index, About the Author
Biography
Jen Shirkani
