{"id":1366,"date":"2016-06-04T09:10:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T16:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theasoe.com\/blog\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2016-06-04T09:10:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T16:10:13","slug":"why-mentally-tough-leaders-need-emotional-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/?p=1366","title":{"rendered":"Why Mentally Tough Leaders Need Emotional Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since we wrote about this topic, and the Harvard Business Review has come up with some concrete outcomes of having emotional intelligence. The overarching idea is that you&#8217;ll be mentally tough, not go to pieces at the first sign of adversity. But, here are some concrete outcomes:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>You will know what fuels you. What you feel down deep in your psyche.<\/li>\n<li>You will have a plan B for when things go awry, and maybe a C and a D, and know when and how you&#8217;ll implement them without missing a beat.<\/li>\n<li>You will have self control. You won&#8217;t say things in stressful situations that you might regret later.<\/li>\n<li>You will not let fear take over.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>These tenets are taught at the FBI Academy at Quantico, so they&#8217;ve been vetted.<\/p>\n<p>Now go out an conquer the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since we wrote about this topic, and the Harvard Business Review has come up with some concrete outcomes of having emotional intelligence. The overarching idea is that you&#8217;ll be mentally tough, not go to pieces at &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/?p=1366\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[623,731,30,768],"tags":[551,59,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1367,"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions\/1367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}