Today's leaders and managers need highly developed emotional competencies like flexibility, adaptability and interpersonal relationships. At some point, strengths become liabilities. The skills and competencies that served us well in our '20s are no longer useful in our '40s, '50s, and '60s. Different enthusiasms call for our attention. In a world where the new currency is relationships , to be deficient in EQ competencies is a real, bottom-line liability.
Leaders tend to define themselves by their work, rather than by who they are.
It is so easy to get caught up in what we do and ignore who we are . We begin to define ourselves by external accomplishments and neglect the inner tasks that life calls us to, especially in the afternoon of life. This neglect of our inner life is the recipe for disaster. If you do that, you can't lose. Intoxicated by success, says Wieand, such managers begin to think of themselves only in terms of their role at work.