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EQ and Social Regard: Do You Actually Care About Your Team?
Mainstream EQ misses belief and intent — why influence without genuine care slides into manipulation, and the emotional skills that keep it healthy.
True leadership is rooted in influence — and mainstream EQ has missed the mark on the two things that make influence healthy: belief and intent. A framework that can’t account for motivation will happily promote leaders with manipulative tendencies.
Tim and Junior take up the question every leader should sit with: do I actually care about my team, and is that evident in my behavior, values, and interactions? They map the essential ingredients of influence, the pitfalls of manipulation and coercion, and the emotional skills that keep influence honest.
