EGO vs. EQ: How Top Leaders Beat 8 Ego Traps With Emotional Intelligence

  • 3h 21m
  • Jennifer Shirkani
  • Bibliomotion
  • 2014

In Ego vs EQ, Jen Shirkani shares strategies for using emotional intelligence (EQ) as a primary prevention tool to avoid career derailment. The executive leadership failure rate is high: two in five CEO’s fail in the first 18 months on the job and two thirds of business’ will disappear just a decade after founding. This book teaches you how to identify the most common reasons for leadership ineffectiveness, including the cascading consequences they create, and learn tools to prevent them. Drawing on real-life anecdotes from the author’s 20-years of coaching and consulting, Ego vs EQ provides research and case study examples in an easy to read, practical format and is ideal for anyone currently in an executive leadership role, including business owners, or those wanting to become a dynamic future leader.

About the Author

Jen Shirkani wrote Ego vs EQ to help leaders help themselves. As an executive coach, she takes the science of EQ (emotional intelligence) and brings it to practical application for the senior executive or business owner who not only wants to survive, but thrive. She has over twenty years of experience working with Fortune 500 organizations and family-owned companies helping leaders leverage the power of EQ. She was born and raised in Southern California and holds a Master’s Degree in Organizational Leadership.

In this Book

  • EGO vs. EQ—How Top Leaders Beat 8 Ego Traps With Emotional Intelligence
  • Introduction—The Eight Ego Traps
  • Ignoring Feedback You Don’t Like
  • Believing Your Technical Skills Trump Your Leadership Skills
  • Surrounding Yourself with More of You
  • Not Letting Go of Control
  • Being Blind to Your Downstream Impact
  • Underestimating How Much You Are Being Watched
  • Losing Touch with the Frontline Experience
  • Relapsing Back to Your Old Ways
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix—Identifying Your Ego Blind Spots
  • Endnotes
  • References
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