Short excerpt from a leadership talk arguing leaders should shift from emotional intelligence to emotional maturity. Key leadership practices named include suspension of self-interest, insatiable curiosity, contextual competence, and an obsession with culture to build high-performing teams.
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So we need to move from emotional intelligence to emotional maturity. Which is really about in this instance is, hey, it's not about you. It's this suspension of self interest. That's what leaders need today is I It's not about you. It's how well you know the members of your team, what the headwinds are, what the tailwinds are, how you construct that team to optimally create a culture of high performance. So things like that switch from emotional intelligence to emotional maturity. Things like suspension of self interest, insatiable curiosity, contextual competence, obsession with culture.