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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Are You on Automatic?

By Dusty Staub | 03/26/2011

Are you on automatic pilot in your life?  Just this morning I was in a conversation with a good friend of mine who lives in New Mexico.  We were discussing our families and personal relationships.  As we talked and shared some of the frustrations we experience at home and at […]

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It’s All About Perspective – What Really Matters

By Dusty Staub | 02/25/2011

The quality of your life experience is proportional to your keeping perspective on what truly matters in life.

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Stepping Up Your Personal Best

By Dusty Staub | 02/16/2011

All we can do and all that we are can be summarized in the following question, “Are you being and acting on your personal best?” You can only do your best in each moment given your level of self-awareness and personal mastery. What are the core strengths you can bring […]

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Dreaming A Better Dream

By Dusty Staub | 02/09/2011

In past blogs I have written about the trance states that we so often get stuck in and of the danger of letting our domesticated mind run our lives.  And I’ve underscored the importance of being aware of one’s Core Purpose in life as a compass. This post is for those […]

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Claiming Personal Power

By Dusty Staub | 01/28/2011

How much personal power can you access in your daily life?  How powerful, effective and engaging are you in your life and interactions with others? As one of my mentors Dr. Richard Moss put it to me, “What can you do to become even more effective and to “stand in […]

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Breaking the Trance: Transforming Leadership

By Dusty Staub | 12/26/2010

Most people are caught up in a “trance state” of limited consciousness and awareness. Identifying your trance state and taking action creates greater efficacy and joy.

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Check Your Belief Systems: How Are You Aiming Your Mind?

By Dusty Staub | 09/09/2010

I have a question for you.  How are you aiming your mind and what are you aiming it upon? I have found that question to be the determining factor in whether people are creating significance and success at life or end up missing the boat. What you are aiming it […]

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Personal Development Drives Overall Effectiveness

By Dusty Staub | 08/04/2010

Something critical is missed again and again in many organizations as they think about how to increase overall organizational effectiveness. Strategic excellence is almost always thought of as the key lever to increasing organizational effectiveness. Yet, as the authors of “From Good to Great” emphasize, when it comes to becoming […]

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Actively Creating Your Future – Step One

By Dusty Staub | 06/03/2010

“By doing nothing more than observing and acting on the obvious, a person can change the world.” Buckminster Fuller Building on the last blog, “Imagining Your Future” – I now want to focus on “Creating Your Future”.  I want to share an example of someone who imagined a better future […]

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The Power of Imagining Your Future

By Dusty Staub | 05/19/2010

“Today is the day when infinite possibilities remain open before us, if only we can shake off our torpor and re-imagine a different future.” Michael Casey The ability to create both our lives and our careers requires a series of acts of imagination. The great Romantic Poet, William Blake, called […]

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How can you create the future you want?

By Dusty Staub | 02/20/2009

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” — Alan Kay As Alan Kay, one of the guiding leaders at Apple, so eloquently expressed, the key to the future is not waiting for it to roll around but to take a proactive role in creating it. They […]

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Effective Communication: Giving Feedback

By Dusty Staub | 05/30/2008

“Good intent in giving input is not enough. We must back up intention with behavior that is skillful.” — Dr. Kathryn Smerek If one of the most critical set of skills in a leader’s tool kit is that of giving performance- based feedback, then it helps if it is both […]

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