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Inspiring Leadership through Emotional Intelligence

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Emotional intelligence, hope, mindfulness, and compassion help a person reverse the damage of chronic stress and build great leadership relationships. The Positive and Negative Emotional Attractors inspire sustained, desired change and learning at many levels.

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Why good leaders make you feel safe | Simon Sinek

Simon Sinek's 2014 TED talk arguing that effective leaders build a circle of safety, sacrificing for their teams so people trust one another and cooperate. Explains how that sense of security drives loyalty and discretionary effort inside organizations.

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The Puzzle of Motivation - Dan Pink

TED talk in which Dan Pink contrasts behavioral science research on incentives with common business practice, arguing that contingent rewards can impair performance on creative tasks. Viewers understand why autonomy, mastery and purpose often motivate knowledge workers better than bonuses.

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TED Talks Leadership Playlist

A TED-curated playlist of about a dozen talks on leading people, including Simon Sinek, Jacqueline Novogratz and Hamdi Ulukaya. Together they present contrasting approaches to empowering teams, handling fear, communicating a vision and using generosity as a leadership tool.

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How Great Leaders Inspire Action

Simon Sinek's TEDx Puget Sound talk introducing the Golden Circle: why, how, what. Uses examples such as Apple and Martin Luther King Jr. to explain why communicating purpose first inspires people to follow, buy or commit more than listing features.

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How great leaders inspire action

Simon Sinek's 2009 TEDx talk introducing the golden circle: why purpose precedes method and product in persuasion. As a model of presentation craft, it shows a single idea carried by repetition, drawing, and restraint.

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brenebrown.com

Brené Brown's site provides research-based insights on vulnerability, courage, resilience, and leadership. It features articles, books, talks, podcasts, and online courses (such as Dare to Lead) to help you build grit and courageous, wholehearted living.

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