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Summary: Emotional Intelligence at Work
Review: From Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., author of the landmark international bestseller Emotional Intelligence, comes his sensational follow-up, Working with Emotional Intelligence. In this program read by Aaron Meza, Goleman definitively proves that success in today's workplace depends more on emotional intelligence than I.Q. He vividly demonstrates how self-awareness, motivation, influence, conflict management, and team-building are essential to making your workplace thrive, and he points out the damage done when they are lacking. Do you want to prosper personally and professionally in the new millenium? This audiobook is the key--it will indelibly change the way you interact with your coworkers, your boss, and people you meet each day while conducting business.
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Summary: Emotional Intelligence at Work
Review: From Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., author of the landmark international bestseller Emotional Intelligence, comes his sensational follow-up, Working with Emotional Intelligence. In this program read by Goleman, he definitively proves that success in today's workplace depends more on emotional intelligence than I.Q. He vividly demonstrates how self-awareness, motivation, influence, conflict management, and team-building are essential to making your workplace thrive, and he points out the damage done when they are lacking. Do you want to prosper personally and professionally in the new millenium? This audiobook is the key--it will indelibly change the way you interact with your coworkers, your boss, and people you meet each day while conducting business.
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Summary: Highly Readable and Extremely Interesting
Review: Having read the first Goleman book on Emotional Intelligence, I was very impressed with the follow-up. The book challenges our preconceptions on the subject of EQ vs. IQ. I am a firm believer in Emotional Intelligence and how we are just beginning to scratch the surface on the subject. The implications of Goleman's research are far-reaching. IT IS A MUST READ FOR ANYONE WHO IS CURIOUS ABOUT HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND ITS IMPACT ON OUR FUTURE SUCCESS OR FAILURE.
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Summary: Steps to enhance success Emotionally!
Review: How we need to over ride our emotions sometimes! Daniel Goleman's book is indeed an insight to cultivate one's mind emotionally. Understanding and raising emotional intelligence is essential to your success and leadership potentials. Daniel selects examples and anecdotes from the Fortune 500 companies which shows the competency to deal with various factors at workplace. The training tools, conflict management, building bonds and motivation, encouragement and inspirations are really necessary not with the IQs only but with the 'Emotional Intelligence skills' which enhance leadership to excel. The author shows the way how to manage feelings, interact, communicate and tackle with the issues in organization. Initiative, self control, optimism are some key factors of personal competency which make the emotional control board of the mind geared up to treat right, care and understand. A must read for every business. Its never an arrogance, ego or pride but be in tune with 'Emotional Intelligence'- Thats the trick of the trades for every savvy Leader.
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Summary: More of "why" and not "how".
Review: I agree with Daniel in most of what he said, however the title is a bit misleading. The word "Working" seems to be the operative, but I didn't see many examples of "how" to work, but "why" it is important to have emotional intelligence.If you are looking for answers on how to modify your behavior to enhance your relationships, or working better with people, then you might have to look elsewhere. In reading the book I felt like Mr. Goleman was trying to fill the pages rather than give concise content. This book would have been better at 1/4 the size.
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Summary: Long on Anecdotes--But Short on Advice
Review: I began this book with great interest. With his excellent anecdotes, I quickly became fully convinced of the value of working with emotional intelligence. But instead of going on to make suggestions as to how a person could improve their own emotional inteligence, or how to help employees/managers in this area, he continued on and on with more anecdotes, clear until the end of the book. I didn't need any more convincing--I was already convinced by the first third of his book--I wanted him to give some advice about implementation, which he didn't give.
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Summary: BECOME A LEADER BY IMPROVING YOUR EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
Review: I couldn't help thinking as I read this book that this is a guide for what parents should teach their children and how parents should act to be good role models for their children. I agree that emotional intelligence can be learned and that the most successful leaders "have it". In fact, perhaps the high turnover that we see in senior executives today is that we are no longer willing to tolerate those without emotional intelligence. Many of the 25 emotional competencies are values that we see during interviews where we match the candidate' value to those of the company's. In effect, we are valuing their ability to work together at an emotional level. The good news is that based on this book and the many case studies, you do not have to be strong in all of the areas. WORKING WITH EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE also stresses the success of the optimistic, and goes beyond other books in explaining why this occurs. Finally, one critical strength of the emotionally intelligent is the ability to communicate with many people in many ways. I have just read THE 2,000 PERCENT SOLUTION, by Donald Mitchell, Carol Coles, and Robert Metz. Their chapter on The Communications Stall describes the inability to make progress without good communications and what good communications requires. Their other stalls also complement WORKING WITH EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE by describing the problems of not being able to accept new ideas or adapt to change or do what must be done. Combine learning how to increase your emotional intelligence with THE 2,000 PERCENT SOLUTION'S identification of where you are "Stalled" and how to make rapid progress and you are well on the path to being a successful leader in family and business.
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Summary: Too Much Science About Emotions
Review: I feel the premise of Goleman's book is highly relevant to those of us who work only to be undermined by feelings and emotions gone awry. I expected a "back-to-the-basics-common-sense" approach, but rather I got a lot of science and intelligence-speak.
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Summary: Very instructive book
Review: I learned a lot of differents things on people's character traits, people surrounding me and especially myself and why I failed in communicating with others. As a lot of books on subjects like that, there is not a lot of but some repeating and at times it is a bit arduous when it explains the physiological functioning. Excellent book.
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Summary: Not much new here.
Review: I much prefer Goleman's first book. This book does not have the same depth or originality.
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