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"Likely you have been schooled in many rational strategies, but you probably never received any training that fosters relational intelligence. Relational Intelligence is the ability to connect with those who think differently through communication, understanding, learning and trust. It is what enables you to grow yourself with another.
In this age of complexity, chaos, and constantly changing teams, the more skill you have to work and relate across differences, the more effective and happier you will be. For twenty years the two of us have been passionately developing and offering strategies for senior leaders around the world that increase relational intelligence."
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In this age of complexity, chaos, and constantly changing teams, the more skill you have to work and relate across differences, the more effective and happier you will be. For twenty years the two of us have been passionately developing and offering strategies for senior leaders around the world that increase relational intelligence."
"The most significant gift our species brings to the world is our capacity to think. The most significant danger our species brings to the world is our inability to think with those who think differently. It is clear that to stay competitive in our global economy, we must learn how to think collaboratively and innovatively. But if you have ever sat through a mind-numbing meeting or tried to influence a colleague's view on a project or had a recurring argument with a family member or struggled to participate in a community project, you have recognized that most of us actually don't know how to think well together.
We take for granted that intelligence occurs within our own minds. We don't realize that it also occurs between us. What keeps us from tapping into that intelligence and communicating effectively is that most of us don't know how to think with people who think differently than we do. We habitually misread people and therefore miscommunicate with them."
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