Be free, #boss your emotions. The #calm wins more CEO roles.
Besides your talent, a key attribute for success is the ability to manage emotions. TalentSmart research found that “ 90% of top performers are skilled at managing their emotions in times of stress in order to remain calm and in control.” Indeed, there are more “calm” successful people than otherwise.
I serve on company boards and provide private client advisory to owners of companies. When hiring CEOs, after all the typical evaluations, everyone looks for that “Calm Test”.
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Here is the deal: you can only win your world after you have won your emotions. Under stress, what you’re not doing is as important as what you’re doing. Some CEOs put on white lab coats before they sign consequential deals, as a way to condition emotions. Until you can boss your emotions, you are not free!!
– Ndubuisi Ekekwe
“Blessed are the meek: For they shall inherit the Earth.” (Matthew 5:5)
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If your emotions don’t betray you, what or who will? Even those telling you to be calm are not even calm, they are panicking.
Just know yourself, and you will stand a better chance of gaining that inner stability, even when everything around you is screaming crisis.