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The truth about emotional intelligence at work
Low emotional intelligence doesn't announce itself. Nobody stands up in a meeting and says "I can't take feedback" or "I need to be right more than I need to be effective." It sh...
Edge of Possibilities | Liz Murray | Leadership Reading time: 6 minutes
You got here on competence. You solve problems faster than most people in the room, you make the calls nobody else wants to make, and on paper, you're doing everything right.
So why does it feel like something's still not land...
By Liz Murray | Edge of Possibilities
There is a type of leader I recognise immediately.
They move through the day competently. Meetings run. Decisions get made. The team sees someone steady and capable. To the people around them, everything looks fine.
Underneath? It's different. There's a ve...
All month we have been circling one idea. Authority is not about how you look. It is about who you are being. So let me bring it all home, because there is one distinction that ties the whole thing together.
When we walk into a room worried about how we are coming across, managing the image, trying...
When we lead from performance instead of presence, we do not just feel tired. We start to drift, and most of the time we cannot see it happening.
It shows up in one of a few ways.
Some of us get louder. We overcompensate, we talk more, we push harder, we try to prove something. We mistake volume f...
Think about the most powerful person you have ever been in a room with. Not the loudest. The most powerful.
I would put money on this, they were calm. Not switched off, not passive, calm. There was a stillness to them. They did not rush to fill silences. They did not get rattled when someone pushed...
You're good at your job. The results are there. People look to you. And yet there's a quiet voice that says you're getting away with something, and one day everyone will find out.
Most leaders are told that's imposter syndrome. That you just need more confidence, more evidence, more time in the rol...
Edge of Possibilities | Liz Murray | Leadership Development
Reading time: 5 minutes
June 30 is almost here.
And if you're like most leaders right now, you're heads down. Finalising budgets. Closing out performance reviews. Getting through the list.
But before you cross the line into a new fi...
Most leaders are operating below their actual authority and don't know it.
Not because they're failing. Not because they lack skill or effort.
Because authority drift is silent. It builds gradually, beneath the surface, in the small decisions, behaviours, and patterns that accumulate over months a...
Most leaders don't find out their authority is drifting until the damage is already done.
Not because they aren't paying attention. Not because they don't care.
Because authority drift is silent. It doesn't send a warning. It doesn't show up in a performance review or a budget report. It shows up ...
There is a trap that catches the best leaders.
Not the ones who are struggling. Not the ones who are disengaged or checked out.
The ones who are capable, driven, and results-focused.
It is the busy trap. And it is dangerous precisely because it does not feel like a trap. It feels like leadership....
What Happens When You Decide to Be Exceptional
There is a moment in every leader’s growth where the shift is not loud or dramatic or even obvious to anyone else.
It happens quietly, internally, almost like a recalibration.
It is the decision to stop tolerating your own drift and step back into ...