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.

A communication analysis conversation in Communication Intelligence magazine in response to a leader saying, “I can’t wait to be of service to everyone in this room.”

Is this impressive and helpful or does it miss the mark?

“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.

Sylvia Baffour, an EI (emotional intelligence) motivational speaker, executive coach and the author of “I Dare You to Care" talks with Communication Intelligence magazine about conversing with your employees about the Israel-Palestine violence and pain.

Cyndee Harrison, principal at Synaptic, a marketing and public relations agency, talks with Communication Intelligence magazine about how someone -- or an organization -- can respond to calls for a resignation or termination.

“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.

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.

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.

The egregious errors of competitive communication and bulldozing people are risky and costly, says Annetta Wilson, president of Annetta Wilson Media Training & Success Coaching.

Diane DiResta, a communications strategist, the founder of DiResta Communications, Inc. — and the author of “Knockout Presentations,” talks about the dangers of it, what needs to happen to replace that communication with smarter behavior and what it will take to successfully accomplish it.