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Interpersonal skills are especially important in Information Technology, because purely technical skills are easily outsourced. Although many aspects of IT are based online, real business is still mostly done "IRL" (in real life); where face-to-face conversations and other social skills are much more important.A local entrepreneur recommended this book for its insights into the "soft" personal skills that become more important as they become rarer in the digital world. I didn't find a lot of pra...
Great book on how to use emotional intelligence to evolve in your career and to improve your relationship with your colleagues.
What should I say about this book? Absolutely fabulous delivers what it said. The book develops a conscience in the readers to achieve something greater. As it suggests it is a really groundbreaking book that redefines what it means to be smart.
First printed nearly 20 years ago, this book's content can deliver around 50% relevance now I guess, given the mushroom-ing of "emotional intelligence" and other buzzwords that come with it for the last two decades. We heard too much of them nowadays that the first half can be a freaking long and tiring read with many info we probably grow tired of hearing. Though I believe many ideas here are original, they're no longer new, even horribly lack update for recent developments, considering that
Read this twice now. No real strategies, just continuous examples of how useful it would be to have high "EQ"
A very BORING book, I couldn't even complete itIn this book Daniel Goleman is explaining how Emotion Quotient (EQ) matters more than Intelligence Quotient (IQ) , then he started to explain the Emotional Competence Model that is composed of 1- Self Awareness 2- Self regulation 3- Motivation 4- Empathy 5- Social Skills besides demonstrating examples from real life on how each of these capacities matters. sometimes you will feel lost reading this book due to the HUGE amount of useless anecdotes and...
This book discusses a rather important issue, but it is really, really badly written. I was especially underimpressed by it against the backdrop of the recently read "Thinking, fast and slow" by Daniel Kahneman. The book is EXTREMELY long-winded. Long after it made its (perfectly convincing) point, it goes on and on piling one example on top of another in the style of chain letters, for further persuasion value adding a bunch of meaningless numbers: such and such billions of dollars of financial...
Working with Emotional Intelligence is a must read for anyone who wants to move up the corporate ladder. Today's business atmosphere is changing rapidly, and anyone without emotional intelligence will likely find moving upward in their company very difficult.
The author, Goleman, explains how competencies of emotional intelligence (EI) can be applied to work life. Referred to as “the capacity for recognizing our own feelings and those of others, for motivating ourselves, and for managing emotions well in ourselves and in our relationships,” EI can be traced to 1983 when Howard Gardner proposed a model for “multiple intelligence.” Of Gardners seven, he included verbal and math, but he also had two that characterize and are consistent with Goleman’s bo...
Interesting topic brought with number of insightful stories and advises about different aspects of developing emotional intelligence in business environment. A little hard to read it as usual book, since number of points are repeated on different complexity levels in different chapters. Once you accept it more like an student's book where every chapter is story on and that it is OK to read it in the order you want (unfortunately,I manage to understand it only when I read the almost complete book...
A review of the audio book edition: In this book, Daniel Goleman takes the theoretical foundation and concepts laid in the previous book "Emotional Intelligence" and puts them into application. While "Emotional Intelligence" is about how to understand emotional intelligence, this book is about how to practice it. Although Daniel Goleman mainly addresses the workplace and professional life in this book, still the knowledge provided can be effectively applied on the personal level and in dealing w...
Because I was working in a testosterone filled hierarchy at the time I read this, it was like being handed a big, secret, club. My coworkers generally didn't know what hit them - using Goleman's analytic framework allowed me to maneuver project teams into win-win outcomes.Teaches you how to recognize impediments, how to understand what drives the other party's position (or at least how to figure out what that is), and best of all, how to use that knowledge. GREAT read for anyone who regularly ne...
No real rocket science here... Getting ahead may actually count more on your emotional IQ (see items below) than it does on your intellectual IQ. I'd only suggest reading one Goleman book. I suspect they all rehash the same thoughts.Part 2 – Personal Competence (12 specific job capabilities) Chapter 4 – Self-awareness • Emotional awareness • Accurate self-assessment • Self-confidence Chapter 5 – Self-regulation • Self-control • Trustworthiness • Conscientiousness • Adaptability • Innovation Cha...
The book applies lessons from Emotional Intelligence to the workplace exclusivelyAs your career advances, interpersonal skills matter more than cognitive skillsOrganization can optimize its performance by improving its collective emotional intelligenceThere are twenty-five emotional competencies grouped into five categoriesThree of which are personal competencies, while two are social competenciesThe first personal competency category is Self-AwarenessThe second is Self-Regulation, or controllin...
Working with Emotional Intelligence (1998) by Daniel Goleman is the sequel to the hit self-help book Emotional Intelligence first published in 1995, and the book is also a prime example of “professional nepotism” and “self-prohibited research.” Another alumnus of Harvard we far too often see on the bookshelves for no better reason than they attended Harvard, Daniel Goleman begins the book with an acknowledgments section which basically sets out an extended thanks to those he will later primarily...
Daniel Goleman's first book in the series - 'Why EQ matters more than IQ' was an eye opener for me on many fronts. Our age old beleif that one can only survive in this world with a brain high in IQ and competence inherent by birth was shattered for good. It provided deep insights into why people are how they are.In this book, Goleman delves deeper into how emotional competence makes people a better leader at the work place and in a social setting. Through studies and researches conducted across
notes recently found on a book read a while back!I have been reading non-fiction, Working with Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Coleman. It seems that everyone I mention this to says he same thing.....There is a lot of emotional in the work place, but not very much intelligence! This is not a self help book, but one that explains what emotional intelligence is and how companies are beginning to realize that their bussiness can be effected by the emotions of their workers. My favorite quote is "T...
Lots of really great ideas on how to cultivate emotional intelligence within the workplace-- for all levels.
Not as good as the first. The organization of the book is a bit frustrating, with no clear direction of where Goleman is headed.The first book definitely had a greater impact on me. The last 75 pages or so seemed to drone on about the same topics, with little new insights.The typical reader could do without reading this book if they've already read the first.
- Emotional intelligence can be learned, but only via practice, and may involve unlearning of old habits