Competency and strength, not managed well, can become a professional and personal weakness:

Communication Intelligence magazine examines a smart quote, research and insights from the Harvard Business Review and comments from expert sources Ray Christner and Carl Nassar.

Thinking, decisions and behavior: Taking your foot off the brake. A Communication Intelligence conversation about progress, results and not releasing limiting emotions, psychology, beliefs, habits and action.

“From CIA to CEO, Unconventional Life Lessons for Thinking Bigger, Leading Better and Being Bolder,” is Rupal Patel’s book to move people in mind and actions from where they might feel stuck to the even higher places in their careers where they feel they can succeed.

The book is a helper for people, especially women, for thinking bigger about what is possible, leading their lives in ways that feel better or more authentic and being bolder with what they make happen for themselves.

Perfectionism snags a lot more people than you might imagine. Here is a conversation about understanding and overcoming it and how it affects communication. Vitale Buford Hardin, an expert in perfectionism and the president and CEO at The Hardin Group, shares insights and recommendations.

“No matter how talented a team is, it still has to work together and figure it out,” Jayson Tatum, star NBA player and Boston Celtics forward recently said.

Stephanie Licata, senior learning strategist at Cloverleaf and an ICF Certified Coach, breaks that reality down.

Honest, wise leaders will always look back and have regrets or admittances of some type of “failure” yet not everyone talks about it.

Ron Saich, founder and former CEO of Panera, talked about what he says was his biggest error. It’s an interesting one.

What Saich said inspired a conversation with four leaders.

Harvard University and its president, Claudine Gay, are under duress and public relations crisis. Will Gay survive it and continue to lead the school?

Blair Huddy, founder and CEO at Hudson Davis Communications, talks with Communication Intelligence magazine about the story.

Magic Johnson's resume, high school to college to the NBA to the business world, is stuffed with surreal levels of success yet one game and one loss once created a severity of a loss of confidence and self doubt.

Communication Intelligence talks about Johnson's admittance of his struggle with Eric Eng, the founder, CEO and private admissions counselor at AdmissionSight and Nikki Jain, founder and CEO at The Sprout PR.

Comprehension determines whether communication has been effective.

Barry Maher, a presenter, author and principal at Barry Maher & Associates and Sruthi Dhulipala, a publicist, media strategist and the senior PR Manager at The Right Now talk to Communication Intelligence about this topic.

Leaders have the responsibility to notice problems with the potential to become significant incidents and address them promptly and successfully before an escalated state develops.

This conversation looks at the quote, “One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.”

Aggressive communication behavior within negotiation, meant to intimidate and get the other party to bow to you is not the smartest approach to success. There are higher level ways to communicate that you are at your end point.

Moshe Cohen, senior lecturer at the Questrom School of Business at Boston University, founder and president of The Negotiating Table and the author of Collywobbles: How to Negotiate When Negotiating Makes You Nervous, talks about aggressive communication and posturing in negotiations and how better or best to express oneself. “Take it or leave it” wording is not helpful.

Executives are no different than other people in that they should not remain silent when they need to share bad news and they should be bold in asking for help.

Matt Schnuck, CEO at Rickhouse and writer of The Inflection on LinkedIn, wrote about it on LinkedIn — and Johnny Sirpilla, former president of Camping World and Good Sam, founder of Encourage and author of “Life is Hard but I’ll be Okay,” — Jennifer Eisenreich, founder and CEO of Shift Show Communication, talk about it.

You have high performers excelling in your organization. If they are truly unselfish and other people would welcome them asserting themselves for the benefit of everyone, how do you communicate to inspire them to be more confident giving more of their talent, skills and special ability.

Armine Pogosyan and Michael Nova talk about it.

Vice President Kamala Harris doesn't seem to be respected as a communicator yet communications professional Cathy Rought Jacobson, president & CEO at Integritas Public Affairs, says Harris excelled in her 60 Minutes interview with Bill Whitaker.

Talking to your valued people as they are departing the company makes sense yet may not be as helpful as conversing with them before they consider looking elsewhere and leave.

Tonicia Freeman-Foster, Ed.D., a leadership and organizational culture expert and co-founder of LEIDOSWEL (Kusudi Consulting Group) and Luke Lintz, founder and CEO of HighKey Enterprises, a digital branding company, talk about the intelligence of conducting “stay” interviews and three useful, probing questions.