How Positive Thinking Can Improve Your Focus and Creativity. Why you need to slow down to succeed. Scott Eblin is an executive coach, speaker, blogger and author of “The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success.”
You can learn more about him and read his blog at Eblin Group. Or follow him on Twitter: @scotteblin. This is the third post in a series exploring how to improve your leadership presence in 2012. To assess the state of your leadership skills, check out Eblin’s free leadership self-assessment, based on his book “The Next Level: What Insiders Know About Executive Success.” There was a vastly underrated road trip movie last year starring Zach Galifianakis and Robert Downey Jr. called “Due Date.” Whenever Downey’s character would explode in rage, Galifianakis’ character would say, “Hey, you better check yourself before you wreck yourself.”
Here’s my evidence for that. In the 360 surveys, the colleagues usually rate the leaders low on that behavior, and the leaders’ self-assessments are even lower than those of their colleagues. Bob Sutton. A few years back, one of my closest friends at Stanford, Steve Barley, made a comment that I still think of often “If you are what you do, then I am a sociologist.”
Steve was making a general point (drawn from sociological theory on identity) and a specific point about himself. The general point was that the behavior that people display – regardless of their intentions and the claims they make to others – are the best indicator of both their sense of self and of how others see them. The specific point was that, although Steve is an engineering professor and his doctorate is from MIT’s Sloan School of Management, because of the intellectual tools he uses day after day in his research – things like social network theory, ethnographic methods, and theories of the sociology of work and technology – he sees himself as a sociologist (and most other scholars do too). Another sign that my identity is as a writer is evident in what I read for fun. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
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