What It Takes to Achieve Managerial Success

Four facets of emotional intelligence epitomize the necessary competencies.

• The most common mistake I hear about in newly promoted managers is trying to succeed as a leader the way they succeeded as individual contributors. What we now know is that individual success tends to come from self-motivation and self-management, while managerial success is the result of emotional intelligence (EI) and several essential social competencies.

  Competencies successful leaders have in common

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