Endless facts

I have listened for several hours and have been unable to get a handle on a single idea that might facilitate the growth of my emotional intelligence. Goleman seems unable to sense the difference between data and truly valuable information. I feel buried in data, and I'm beginning to think I'll have to listen for months to synthesize something useful to myself.

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One of the most important books I've encountered

Yes, I'll say it: this is one of the most important books I've read (listened to) in my life. I am well into my career of many years. I am 49. I work with executives, and I have friends that are execs, but I am not one. I am sometimes caught in between their squabbles. This book helps me understand my organization infinitely better than I did before. It's phenomenal for work relationships and interactions. It is great at helping you understand where you are in your career and how organizations and teams work best. It so rich. There is so much there,. I just finished Emotional Intelligence and then did this one. I think it is better to do it this way, but I think someone would get as much just doing this book.

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Not pop science

Good review for working with children or others. Thought it would be self-help pop psychology. It was better than that.

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Intelligence for the 21st Century Workplace

In his first book on emotional intelligence, Daniel Goleman focuses on education and how we teach emotional intelligence. In this book, the focus is on the work world and how critical emotional intelligence is for organizational success. Goleman reviews the five dimensions of emotional intelligence (self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and handling relationships) and lists 25 emotional competencies, highlighting which of those competencies lead to business success and which determine the success or failure of an executive.

Throughout the book, Goleman supports his argument for the need for emotional intelligence, noting that organizations going through the greatest change need emotional intelligence the most and that EI accounts for ninety percent of what's required for effective leadership. Moreover, he lauds the concept of learning organizations because they increase emotional intelligence, particularly in the areas of building trust and improving communications and dialogue. He closes the book with the statement that lack of emotional intelligence is the corporate equivalent of a weakened immune system - not necessarily deadly but ultimately affecting productivity and competitiveness. In this day and age, it's not a situation that many organizations can afford to find themselves in.

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Emotional Inteligence

The book talks about the effect of EQ on businesses and corporations but it is not a breakdown of how you can cultivate EQ in your life in simple SMART ways.

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The pivotal book to EI

This book is a perfect starting point for an effort into working on Emotional Intelligence, I have read roughly a dozen books adjacent to this one on EI and they all revert back to this work by Dr. Goleman. I highly recommend this book.

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Extremely Beneficial

Exactly what I was hoping for. Read Emotional Intelligence, then found this, and it helped me figure out key points to work on to help in the workplace both for myself and employees. Highly recommend.

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I found a few great qualities within myself and a few others that I need to bring to light and change.

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Confirmed what i had surmised

I found it very relevant to the corp world im in. It did validate for me that being empathetjc is not a weakness. Having lived through the 90s in nyc corp life as a woman I thought I must not be cut out for this. 30 yrs later those mean bosses are dying out and kindness is winning. And brains and empathy over bullying. Thank you for the tips of how to better use them and for validating that EQ is not a detriment

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Perhaps it doesn’t translate well

I really struggled to identify with any character in the story. Their motivations just didn’t seem to tie in with my world view, so I could never quite grasp why the characters made their choices; responded to peers; or why they felt the way they did.

I think that this was because I was reading a tale translated, as of course it is. But the translation was the words only, and the culturally relevant meaning didn’t carry over.

Perhaps others are more worldly, and will not share the struggles I encountered.

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