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...boss, Anderson, was elected with 62% of the vote against a Mormon opponent in 1999, and Utahans have been rubbing their eyes ever since. Anderson has a yellow-naped Amazonian parrot in his office whose screeches and wolf whistles echo down the corridor of the City County building; Anderson's politics are no less jarring. Now 50 and twice divorced, he left the Mormon church at 18 over "theological issues." He was a trial lawyer for 21 years, including a stint at the American Civil Liberties Union...
...course, in the hard-nosed world of business--and especially during a recession--sensitivity in a boss might seem beside the point. But to psychologist Daniel Goleman, author of the 1995 best seller Emotional Intelligence and co-author of Primal Leadership (Harvard Business School Press), hitting stores later this month, it couldn't be more important. "Softer" skills such as empathy, intuition, and self- and social awareness, in his view, are what distinguish great leaders--and successful companies...
...addition to plotting strategy, planning budgets and recruiting talent, Goleman argues, providing positive emotional leadership is part of a boss's job; if he or she fails to do that, the bottom line, and not just morale, will suffer. Just as Goleman's first book redefined intelligence--showing that EQ matters as much as IQ--his new treatise, co-written with fellow academics Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee, reassesses what makes a great leader...
...maintains, can connect emotionally through a variety of distinct leadership styles--ranging from what he terms "visionary" and "coaching" to "affiliative" and "democratic." CEO Shelly Lazarus, for instance, still recalls that when she was starting out at the Ogilvy & Mather ad agency, she received a surprise visit from boss David Ogilvy. He asked Lazarus, who was eight months pregnant, how she was doing and what her career aspirations were. And when IBM CEO Lou Gerstner--a notorious tough guy--first came aboard to lead a turnaround in 1993, he took a democratic route, relying on "advice from colleagues who knew...
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