EMOTIONALLY POSITIVE LEADERSHIP

Duda Owner IONOS • June 24, 2015

We are all human and we all have emotions. Great leaders have mastered the art of using their emotions positively to build up their followers. Using emotions positively produces terrific results for the leader and for the team. This is true even when the team does not deliver exactly what the leader had in mind.

Chris Kormis is the associate dean at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. She shares an unfortunate leadership situation that did not display the positive use of emotions (Arianne Cohen, “Good Boss, Bad Boss” Bloomberg Businessweek , 4/13/15–4/19/15, p. 76):

“ I worked for an architectural firm and was asked to color drawings for clients. My pencil strokes went in all directions. The boss was furious and tore them all up. ”

Leaders who have mastered the art of using their emotions positively to build up their followers are the people we should seek and the people we should become.

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