is more important in determining life success, book smarts or street smarts? This is a million-dollar question and is at the heart of an important debate contrasting the relative importance of Intelligence Quotient (IQ) and Emotional Quotient (EQ). The advocates of the book smarts might suggest that it is their IQ that plays the critical role in determining how well people fair in life....

We all know is not easy keeping up with our ever-changing workplace. Technology is changing the way we work in ways we did not expect, leading to what some people call the 4th Industrial Revolution. Which requires workers to adapt their skills to keep up, this technological revolution is forcing us to rethink what we do, and how we do it.

I believe that any person that wants to grow professionally and any leader that wants to grow their organization need to be working on their own personal development first and foremost. But organizational growth is quite different from personal growth. With personal growth you only have one person to be concerned about: you. With an organization you must be concerned with several others, the number depending on...