If you were to step down from your position today, how would you be remembered? Would it be for steering the ship through a crisis and coming through stronger? Would it be for your attitude on employee well-being? Would it be for your refreshing transparency and outside-the-box thinking? Would you be remembered at all? Countless leaders fail to leave a legacy. They are relevant only for the time they hold their position, focused on the now, the results, and the accolades. There will always be another goal to reach, another accolade to receive—and that will continue whether you are there…

"Every week, I have lunch with a competitor," Scott shared. "We catch up, talk about the market, even share trade secrets." As head of a leading architectural firm in a highly competitive market, what Scott does is far too rare. It is very much the practice of a love-powered Amare leader who sees competitors as people striving to bring their own unique gifts into the world. Traditional business tells you to crush, destroy, and annihilate competitors – a warlike mindset that stems from fear and never having enough. In contrast, Amare business greatly values healthy competition and tells you to…

I remember the first time I traveled outside of the United States. My mother, who’d traveled internationally long before I did, kept going on about travel advisories. She said it was important that I check what safety advisories the government had in place for certain countries. For Americans, checking travel advisories is the norm before going abroad. But have you ever thought about what other places think about travel safety in the US? Surprisingly, despite the US being one of the most advanced places in the world, many nations still warn their citizens to be careful when visiting the states.…

There are two ways people can try to improve their emotional intelligence. The hard way, which involves studying the concepts, training yourself to analyze interactions, and working case by case to isolate emotions from other motivations. The easy way, which involves memorizing phrases that inspire positive emotional reactions, and training yourself to use these phrases in the place of others that can be more counterproductive. The examples speak for themselves. Here are five specific things that people with high emotional intelligence learn to say reflexively, over and over, and why they work better than the alternatives. 1. "I apologize." Say…