EQIQ Blog


We hope you will agree: there is a wealth of useful information in the following blogs.  If you go to the oldest posts, you will see we have been, for a long time, covering topics around heart-centered leadership and the liberation of purpose, passion and power of teams and organizations. The specifics of world events and your industry's challenges may change, but the key leadership tools and practices remain the same.

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Courage in the Valley of Death

12 Practices of Courageous Leaders (1)

A digital version of Staub's timeless book for leaders, this easy read offers tools and insights on how to courageously face change and new beginnings.

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Spell Breaking 101 – Creating Your Life As If It Really Mattered

By Dusty Staub | 10/31/2011

Creating your life as if it really mattered is the essence of spell breaking because you take control of your mind instead of your mind controlling you.

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Spell Breaking 101: Cognitive Patterns that Limit Significance & Success

By Dusty Staub | 10/24/2011

Whenever we break a spell by shining the light of awareness and conscious attention on an old, outdated and sub-optimizing way of thinking, a spell, we create more effective ways of thinking, perceiving and of imagining our lives, families, work and way of being in this universe.

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Effectiveness Is All A Matter of Perspective

By Dusty Staub | 10/17/2011

When you learn to shift perspective, you activate the powers of imagination, liberating innovation, imagination and overall effectiveness.

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Leadership Power Questions for Prioritization: Shining a Light on the Key Next Steps

Transformative Power Question #4

By Dusty Staub | 10/04/2011

Are you asking the 4 transformative questions on a regular basis of yourself as well as those around you? Are you teaching others to ask them? Doing so begins a process of transformation if you have the courage to ask AND the courage to hear the answers and to work with them.

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Leadership Power Questions for Prioritization: Shining a Light on the Key Next Steps

Transformative Power Question #3

By Dusty Staub | 09/29/2011

There is a powerful question to add to our prior two that opens up the mind and offers a new perspective that allows for greater change and even transformation.

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Leadership Power Questions for Prioritization: Shining a Light on the Key Next Steps

Transformative Power Question #2

By Dusty Staub | 09/26/2011

By asking the power question, “What are the one or two things that are wrong that if addressed would make the biggest difference?” you can make great progress.

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Leadership Power Questions for Prioritization: Shining a Light on the Key Next Steps

Four Powerful Questions for Transforming Any Enterprise: Question One

By Dusty Staub | 09/20/2011

What is the one question that gets asked least often or is ignored by most people and organizations that if asked would help galvanize attention and build positive momentum?

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Bringing the Whole Self to Work

By Dusty Staub | 08/24/2011

If those around you are more engaged in the work they do, they “own” what they do, take pride in it and are constantly looking for ways to do it better, you will have increased effectiveness and efficiency resulting in improved results and a better bottom line.

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#BreaktheSpell – Beyond Digital Thinking – the Power of the 3rd Perspective

By Dusty Staub | 08/14/2011

There is the larger field of possibility of which polarities are only pieces of the whole. It is our fascination with and deep attachment to polarized positions of thinking and acting that blinds us to the integrative power of the 3rd perspective.

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Changing the Past – Re-Contextualization & Growth

By Dusty Staub | 07/11/2011

Leaders need to understand that is it possible to change the past…the greatest leaders are also masters of changing the context of what has happened to help us see and understand in new and different ways.

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The Spell of Leaders

By Dusty Staub | 06/27/2011

To be a highly effective leader you have to be able to enlist and/or develop highly effective followers….How are you engaging others?

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Breaking the Spells of Limitation (Part 4)

By Dusty Staub | 06/25/2011

Curiosity is not enough to break free of a spell of limitation. Courage is also required, 7 distinct acts of courage.

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Breaking the Spells of Limitation (Part 3)

By Dusty Staub | 06/23/2011

Are you aware of the patterns of thinking within yourself and others that can limit personal, professional and organizational effectiveness?

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Breaking the Spells of Limitation (Part 2)

By Dusty Staub | 06/17/2011

Are you ready to awaken from the spells of limitation?

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Breaking the Spells of Limitation (Part 1)

By Dusty Staub | 06/14/2011

Would you like to know about the primary mechanism that keeps people trapped in sub-optimal patterns of behavior? Would you like to break the spells of limitation?

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Innovation is In-Ovation

By Dusty Staub | 04/27/2011

Want to increase the level of innovation in your team or organization?  Then the key is to get into more of a sense of ovation.  Ovation is a latin origin word that means “rejoicing, shouting, enthusiastic celebration, loud and prolonged applause” (Dictionary.com).  If you want to get more innovation you […]

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Riding Probability Waves

By Dusty Staub | 04/18/2011

Ride the waves of change by learning to be in the mystery versus addicted to being in the know

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Aging In Uncertainty – Surfing the Waves of Change

By Dusty Staub | 04/06/2011

Aging into uncertainty – how to surf the waves of discontinuity and continuous change – tips and sources for aid

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