Emotional intelligence isn't a soft skill, it's what keeps leaders in the room or gets them fired. If you coach others without mastering your own emotions first, you're missing the foundation.
When it comes to emotional intelligence, a lot of experts in this year, one, you've seen it, that we believe that emotional intelligence is not actually improving, but actually going the other direction. Which means we've got a lot of work. We got a lot of work to do for the sages that did all the work in this space for decades and decades. And my last thing I'll say is I really believe it's time to put, like, a flag in the ground and stop calling these things the soft skills. I don't get it. I don't like it. We are built as humans, and we are complex systems. And because we're complex systems, the reality is they're the real skills. They're gonna keep you at the table at oftentimes, but will derail other leaders. And you know what, and I'll say this, and for myself, I've had those moments. I had one where I couldn't control my emotions very well just this past week. So it's never done either. We're all a constant work in motion.
Reducing Regrettable Attrition in Organizations by Fixing the System, Not the People Reducing Regret
