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How Multiple Intelligence Theory Reveals Opportunities for Personal Growth
Very few topics in our culture are as talked about with as little understanding as the issue of intelligence. Research shows that there may actually be nine types of intelligence, yet many types of intelligence are not supported by traditional education or celebrated by society.
Leadership Myth #1 - Great Leaders Are More Intelligent
Many people believe great leaders are more intelligent than poor leaders. There are so many examples that debunk this theory that it is hard to pick just a few. Raw intelligence is not correlated with outstanding leadership characteristics. In fact, if you drew a correlation line showing IQ on one axis and success as a leader on the other, it would not be a straight line. There is a maximum point beyond which higher IQ is actually a predictor of lower success as a leader.

Leadership Myth #2 - Great Leaders Work Harder
Many people believe great leadership requires a person to be the hardest working person in the organization. That is simply not the case. In fact, Great leaders are often less work-a-holic type people than is commonly thought.
Leadership Myth #3 - Great Leaders have a College Education
To be a great leader, does one need a college education? No, that is not a prerequisite for leadership, but the weight of evidence is that better educated people do make better leaders. This article explains the apparent paradox.

Leadership Myth #4 - Great Leaders are Expert at Playing Politics
The issue of when and how to play politics makes an interesting study. While we all want to avoid the Machiavellian type of behavior associated with manipulative politics, like it or not we are in a sea of political thought every day. We better get used to it and learn how to navigate well in it.

Leadership Myth #5 - Great Leaders Have Large Egos
We all know egotistical leaders. We run into them all the time. But is having a large ego a requirement for leadership. I think not. Here are some reasons.
Lesson #5: Never Stop Learning
“Every now and then I like to pick up a copy of Time magazine and read every article from beginning to end, not just the articles that interest me most,” says Gates. “That way you can be certain to learn something you didn’t know previously.”
Lesson #3: Take Charge
“The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go,” Morgan once said. Known amongst his peers not only for his determination and abilities but also for his take-charge personality, Morgan knew what it took to get things done. A man devoted to his business, Morgan would do whatever it took to close a deal, no matter whose head he had to go over. With a clear vision in mind, Morgan took control over his situations, directing them towards the ends he desired.

Lesson #4: Make People Your Priority
“Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy,” says Buffett. “And if they don't have the first, the other two will kill you. You think about it; it's true. If you hire somebody without the first, you really want them to be dumb and lazy.”
Lesson #3: Question Convention
“The most important aspect of my personality, as far as determining my success goes, has been my questioning conventional wisdom, doubting the experts and questioning authority,” says Ellison. “While that can be very painful in relationships with your parents and teachers, it's enormously useful in life.”
Lesson #4: Every Entrepreneur Needs a Little Brand Aid
According to Clark, the secret to Baby Einstein’s success has been “a good concept and a brilliant branding strategy.”

Developing Leadership Effectiveness
What advice would you offer others who are trying to develop their leadership effectiveness?
Are Men Smarter Than Women
Are men smarter than women? A huge new report says they’re not, but they certainly think they are.

A New Year's Observation
It takes all kinds. That’s something we’ve noticed in the past year in the news, with Bernard Madoff topping it off. We have a saying in construction when the structure of a building is completed--a ‘topping off party’ to signify the top floor has been put in place. Somehow, the past year got its own topping off party but not in the best sense.
How to Avoid Twitter Cluelessness
Over at the American Express Open Forum blog, I explain how to not look clueless on Twitter. The first five ways are:

I Want More Information, Not Less
I spent the last two days at the Defrag Conference. It was awesome on so many levels including the content, the venue, seeing a bunch of great friends, and meeting a bunch of new people.
Multiple dumbnesses
About twenty five years ago, Howard Gardner taught us his theory of multiple intelligences. He described the fact that there's not just one kind of intelligence, in fact there are at least seven (1 Bodily-kinesthetic, 2 Interpersonal, 3 Verbal-linguistic, 4 Logical-mathematical, 5 Intrapersonal, 6 Visual-spatial, 7 Musical, 8 Naturalistic). This makes perfect sense-people are good at different things.
Choosing Employee Assessments - Hand Scoring by Experts Still Safeguards Validity & ROI!
Employee assessments are everywhere. With a wealth of employee assessments emerging, the right assessment can seem as elusive as the proverbial "needle in a haystack," yet absolutely worth the diligent hunt. Best practices deployment in this specific arena increases human capital ROI by tenfold plus. The bottom line results of assessments gone right is not contested, and we stand firm that every candidate hired, trained or promoted without this proper intelligence is a profit opportunity missed. And coming from staunch advocates of progressive technology... computers are no replacement for hand scoring. A five criteria process, the following roadmap guarantees ROI and avoids common pitfalls.

General Intelligence Is Not Enough
People with strong general intelligence sometimes fail at business. Conversely, there are plenty of examples of those with comparatively lower IQs who are successful in business. Practical intelligence helps explain this surprising phenomenon.

Evolve and Thrive
Without change we stagnate
Selling Isn't Rocket Science
Much like rocket science, when it comes to making the sale, the littlest thing can mean success or disaster.
Best Online Home Businesses - 4 Models To Follow
The best online home businesses need to offer more than everybody else. Rather than look at specific business opportunities we will talk about four business models that you can follow to create an online income for yourself.
Which Website Visitors Are Potential Clients?
With today's website tracking software and services you can find out a lot about the people who visit your website. You can learn where they're from, what kind of browser they're using, how long they stayed on your site, and a whole lot more. But what all this high tech intelligence won't tell you is what kind of people they are, and how likely they are to be transformed by your Web presentation from viewers to customers.

Avoid Mistakes, Take Action, Overcome Resistance
Works great in sales too. Your salespeople would have more success changing the minds of their prospects if they weren't so busy denying them of their opinions, trying to push facts and features, benefits and value propositions, and proof and examples down their throats.
Tell them exactly what you're going to do to them
Ever think about selling your sales process? And I don't mean going into the sales training business by selling it to competitors or companies in similar industries. I mean did you ever think about selling your sales process to your customer?
Does YOUR Elevator Take People Up?
Who doesn't enjoy receiving kudos for a job well done, or good effort put forth, but how often do we think to dole them out to others. It's easy to get caught up in the flurry of work and home activities, and checking off the to-do list; taking dear family and friends a bit for granted.

5 Wicked Ways To "What If" Your Business
Dive into the game of What If. It's easy. You just say What If....and then you mention the opposite of what you're currently doing. Ie/ What If I could work from home and earn full time money? What If I could make my dream business work? What If what I'm doing right now isn't the right fit? What If I could happily earn over $100,000 a year?

The "Top 4" Successful Work At Home Tips
The internet has made it possible for people all of the world to earn money and work at home. Regardless of your background, your education, your current income level, or anything else, if you are willing to work you can do it at home.

Get Excited
This article is designed to help you overcome the thoughts that keep you stuck in life. Dr. Duckett shares some information about his recent discovery called "The Mental Codes."
The "Spare Room Tycoon" As An Independent Entrepreneur
James Chan defines the meaning and spirit of the "spare room tycoon," a name he created to describe the mind and mindset of independent entrepreneurs.
Marketing No No's - Don't Make These Mistakes!
You've got your business set up and running and your first enquiries start coming in. Now is not the time to sit back and relax – you need to stay ahead of the competition and constantly research your market, honing and tuning your marketing. Here are some things that you should absolutely definitely not do.
Enjoying Good Health for Work and Life
Good health is so basic to enjoying success at work and in personal life. It's even more so, now we are likely to live to a ripe old age. While society might be ageing, we want to always feel young and healthy right to the end. How can we enjoy long life and happiness? This article will give you a powerful new perspective on the links between enjoyment and staying healthy for life.
A Good Host is Hard to Find - Things You Need to Know
All hosts are not created equal. Of course, this goes without saying. But how are they different? This article reviews a few of the big points people should consider when sourcing a hosting company for their business site.
Understanding Anger
An article of 1422 words detailing the two steps involved in accepting and responding to the emotional messages that cause anger.
It Takes A Winner To Become A Champion
We’ve all heard “Champions are not born; they are made.” This is true for YOU were not born a champion; you were born to win.Research now shows that the talent; or lack of natural talent we were born with is irrelevant to great success. Moreover, scientific experts’ findings, across many fields, conclude that talent goes beyond intelligence or personal traits. The truth of the matter is that the same skills that make Tiger Woods great are what can make you a champion.
Ideas! And How To Deal With Them In Your Business
Ideas. Business meetings are scheduled around them, water cooler discussions are dedicated to them, and in the end very little, if anything, is accomplished. So why do we keep entertaining ideas?
If You’re Not Selling . . .
Are you working hard, but not getting the results you want? If you’re a professional salesperson and you’re not selling, checkout these tips.
Self esteem Workout
I am sharing some useful coaching tips and support from my monthly newsletter 'Coaching at Your Fingertips', today tips on how to boost your self-esteem. Self- esteem is about how we view our intelligence, physical ability and our emotional capabilities.
Your Emotional Buttons
An article of 703 words focusing on accepting responsibility for, managing, and eliminating your emotional buttons.
Intuitive Leadership
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5 Lies You Learned at School That Are Holding You Back in Your Business
In the 25 years since graduating from high school, I’ve come to the conclusion that many of the lessons I was taught in school haven’t helped me succeed in my life and business. And I’m not alone. These damaging lies cost people friendships and fulfilling relationships, rob them of joy, and hold them back from having the success in business they deserve. But once you can identify the lessons, you can let go of the old baggage and take off the brakes that have been holding you back.
Strategic Email Actions For Effective Marketing, According To Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach
The use of email marketing continues to grow and we are almost assured to receive multiple email marketing messages every day. Think about those email marketing messages you receive. Some of them are annoying, an insult to one’s intelligence, totally irrelevant to you and your business or organization, arrogant, or sometimes very offensive. Your Strategic Thinking Business Coach emphasizes that one needs to be very sensitive to the use of email marketing and needs to think strategically about the who, what, when, where and why relative to marketing emails that are sent. Here are nine (9) recommended strategic actions to take to help ensure successful use of email in your marketing.
LOOK BEHIND BEFORE YOU LOOK AHEAD
Now is a great time to look back on the past year and gain some perspective on where you’ve come over the last twelve months and what you’ve accomplished. It is also the time to create a realistic personal vision for 2008. A personal vision is more predictive of success and satisfaction than socio-economic background, intelligence or educational level.
Listening - The Powerhouse Management Tool
Listening to your people. As in life, many things that work best in business are the simplest things. In this easy to use toolkit, the benefits of listening and the key tips of how to do it best will help you manage to success...
Getting Rich Is An Exact Science
People who do things in this certain way whether they do it consciously or unconsciously get rich. In science in order for a theory to be proven correct and accepted as fact it must always produce like results from like causes.

Better decisions -getting it right!
How is that as sophisticated and intelligent thinkers we can still manage to go through life making some poor decisions?

Wisdom
Wisdom is a state of knowing!
Mice and Men
Recently, there was a university study done using white mice as the subjects for a psychological experiment. The mice were put into a cage with a red light and a green light on opposite sides of the space. The experiment was designed in such a way that when a bell rang, a mouse could rush to the red light or the green light to receive a treat. The treat was only presented for a few seconds, so that if the mouse guessed wrong and went to the green light when the treat was being presented at the red light, the mouse didn't have enough time to rush across the cage and get the treat.

Measuring Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence (EI) is a skill developed from a deep self-awareness that enables a person to recognize their own feelings and those of others, and make mature decisions free from hindrances of emotionally clouded thinking. Research has proven that those with high levels of EI are less stressed, healthier, happier at home and at work and have healthier interpersonal relationships.

Five Ways To Invite Intuition To Your Training Session
The prospect of adding intuition as an element of learning brings with it some exciting and practical possibilities. Here Arupa Tesolin, an expert trainer, shows you some of the ways to include this in your training sessions.

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Emotional Intelligence – The Hard Truth About Soft Skills
How are your people skills? Academic research has shown that people with high Emotional Intelligence are more successful in business and in life. Emotional Intelligence refers to how well you know yourself, your ability to effectively manage your emotions, and how well you interact with others. Emotional Intelligence is a critical competency for leaders. It is very common in technical fields for people to be promoted to management because they excelled as technicians without much regard for their people skills. Unlike IQ, Emotional Intelligence can be developed.

Financial Intelligence
For years, academic experts have been measuring people’s intelligence by administering an I.Q. test. More recently, behavioral scientists and those in the field of psychology have been discussing a principle they call emotional intelligence. I would submit there is another intellectual area of expertise I would call financial intelligence.

Social Emotional Intelligence in Leadership
Leaders and entire organizations have discovered that success in the workplace has significantly less to do with intelligence or core job competencies and more to do with emotional and behavioral intelligence. The best technicians and the most brilliant team members will often end up with the highest degree of dysfunction when their emotional intelligence is very low. The fattest human resource files have very little to do with job knowledge and generally, have a great deal to do with poor behavioral adaptation and emotional intelligence.
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Emotional Intelligence is the number one predictor of professional success and personal excellence! Only part of our success in life can be attributed to intelligence. Other qualities: trust, integrity, authenticity, creativity, honesty, presence and resilience, are at least as important. These 'other intelligences' are collectively described as Emotional Intelligence. Unlike intelligence, the good news is that EQ can be learned or developed; it's not something you are stuck with. We can develop in ways that can improve our relationships, our workplaces, our parenting, and our classrooms. We could turn society on its ear if we learned to recognize our emotions and control our reactions; if we combined our thinking with our feelings; if we learned to channel our flow of feelings into creative expression, an expression of love.
What Is Your Sales Team’s A. Q.?
It has been known for some time that if you want to measure an individual’s intelligence, you administer an Intelligence Quotient test. This has been an accepted method of measuring one’s intelligence for many years. In sales management, intelligence is important, but this does not get you closer to measuring or predicting your sales team’s effectiveness or the ability to predict with any certainty the projections of future sales. How do measure this? With an A. Q. test.

How Multiple Intelligence Theory Reveals Opportunities for Personal Growth
Very few topics in our culture are as talked about with as little understanding as the issue of intelligence. Research shows that there may actually be nine types of intelligence, yet many types of intelligence are not supported by traditional education or celebrated by society.
Cultural Intelligence - Or The Art Of Avoiding “FARTFULLNESS”
We all know that intelligence is a good thing; however, it seems that new “flavors” of intelligence pop-up with annoying regularity. A few years ago it was emotional intelligence – this was cited as a “must have” for successful organizational players. Then we had social intelligence as the key skill. Now cultural intelligence is the hot topic!
Soft Skills, Hard Results (Part 2)
There's not a lot we can do about the processing power between our ears. For the most part, we're stuck with whatever intelligence quotient (IQ) we've got. The good news for many of us is that our IQ is dramatically less important to success and happiness than our emotional intelligence (EQ). What's even better is that EQ, unlike IQ, can be improved.

How to Develop Emotional Intelligence (EI)
Emotional intelligence taps into a fundamental element of human behavior that is distinct from your intellect. There is no connection between IQ and emotional intelligence. Intelligence is your ability to learn, as well as retrieve and apply knowledge.
How Business intelligence tools can Strengthen your Competitive Advantage
Do you know that the tactical use of business intelligence tools can give your business startup a competitive edge? Do you use business intelligence tools for your small business? If yes, what kind of business intelligence tools do you use? Well, I will suggest you read on. Now before I proceed, I think it’s worthwhile i provide the definition of the term “business intelligence.” According to Wikipedia, business intelligence mainly refers to computer based techniques used in identifying, extracting and analyzing business data such as sales revenue by products, departments or by associated costs and incomes. Therefore, business intelligence tools are a type of application software designed to retrieve, analyze and report data.
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