The Art of Leading Yourself: Tap the Power of Your Emotional Intelligence

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Summary: Blockbuster of soft skills
Review: Finally - an author has created a new paradigm of success and has produced a book that gets right to the heart of modern pursuits. One of the world's leading experts on emotional intelligence, Randi B. Noyes, argues that in today's world, emotions matter. In fact, they can matter twice as much as conventional intelligence and expertise put together in terms of accounting for business success.

"The Art of Leading Yourself" provides a balanced and practical approach to emotional intelligence. It indicates that proper understanding and use of emotions can be critical to helping us be more effective workers and better communicators. Comprehensive, convincing, and invaluable this engaging book is a 'must read' for anyone desiring to make a difference.

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Summary: FOR PEOPLE WHO WANT SUCCESS AND MEANING!
Review: If there is ONE book I would like to recommend to my family, friends and employees it is this book:"The Art of Leading Yourself. Tap the Power of Your Emotional Intelligence." The author and President of Leadership International has put it all together:
Accessing our Emotional Intelligence is made easy to understand. How a person can influence their life and create results becomes remarkably clear,- straight to the point and grounded. Fundamental principals are made SO UNDERSTANDABLE THAT THEY STICK WITH YOU in a way I have never seen before. This is a Leadership book for ourselves first of all and for the people we lead: It is for every person we wish a meaningful and successful life!
This book shows us how we can take advantage of our emotions for motivation, connection and influence.
In addition it is warm and personable. Enjoy!

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Summary: Useful tool for personal development
Review: In "The art of leading yourself" Randi is taking full advantage of her natural talent and the vast experience she has gained from meeting with people in different contexts and her desire to understand their behaviour. She succeeds in conveying the highly complex topic of emotional intelligence in a simple way without banalising the art of managing yourself. Emotional intelligence is often presented in an academic way which means those in need to understand this topic often miss out. Therefore "The art of leading yourself" has the potential to capture a wide audience thence enabling more people to take an active role in developing and improving their situation and becoming managers of their own lives. Randi's book and seminars have definitely contributed to my personal development. I have found the strength to confront myself and as a result I have become a more complete person, both private and professional. Consequently, "The art of leading yourself" should not be regarded solely as a businessperson's guide as it is a very useful tool and guide for personal development...

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Summary: A loving guide
Review: Randi B. Noyes has written a beautiful book that will be your loving guide and companion if you are serious about leading yourself from the inside out. For those who are yet to define themselves as the "uncontested boss off their own life", the book will encourage a bigger and brighter dream of what their life can be.

This book is a practical and down to earth approach to navigating in your own life. Its focus on emotional intelligence teaches that if you want to live a whole life, you will have to use your whole self in your day to day living. Filled with living examples, the book is easy to read and enjoyable. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to know themselves better.

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Summary: Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year, USA
Review: The Art of Leading Yourself gives deep insight into human
behaviour, leadership and self-development. This book helps us to understand how our feelings can work for us by beeing aware of them and using them powerfully to create the results we want.
Feelings have gotten a new focus in this book and emotional
intelligence is explored. It is time!

We in Norway are proud that a Norwegian has received this prestigious US Award. We hope that this powerful book will be part of creating a paradigm shift in leadership approach in the world.

Thank you and congratulations Randi B. Noyes for this book !

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Summary: The art and science of taking charge of one's own life
Review: The Art Of Leading Yourself: Tap The Power Of Your Emotional Intelligence by Randi B. Noyes (President, Leadership International, Inc.) is a straightforward and practical guide to the art and science of taking charge of one's own life, and putting one's emotions to best use, rather than being ruled by them. Individual chapters address the importance of taking responsibility for one's own life, balancing family conflicts with emotional disturbances, step-by-step exercises to managing one's feelings, anecdotes of these teachings in practice, and a great deal more. The Art Of Leading Yourself is very highly recommended reading and a welcome addition to self-help, self-improvement reference collections.

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Summary: Personal Application for EQ
Review: This book is a conversational journey with extensive, vivid images. Noyes calls on extensive consulting and coaching to take the basic principles of self-awareness and self-management and personalize them. The imagery is memorable. The people and examples given make the material applicable and personal. Throughout, the work is easy to read and on point. It's strength is in experience rather than abstract principle. This serves as a great self-help work. The final sections provide easy to use exercises to make materials real, personal and practical. Fun and informative, this work serves to practically make life more fulfilling.

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Summary: Inspiration and Action
Review: This is a beautiful and brilliant book. Randi presents in an immediately accessible style the powerful lessons we can learn from tapping into our emotions and using them intelligently. The book is peppered with examples from her many clients, illustrating the successful transformations that we can achieve in our work and lives when we make this deep lying shift. The clarity of style in which the book is written belies the force of its message. Randi cautions that the choice to understand what our emotions are telling us can lead us to places of personal pain. Yet to ignore our emotions will perpetuate the issues and challenges that are currently causing us problems. The end of the book contains some useful guiding exercises and I found the exercise in the text on page 30 to be deeply moving for me personally. Randi exposes her own journey and how she has overcome the difficulties that she has faced. It takes courage to express such vulnerability to an unknown readership and this, perhaps, is the underlying acknowledgement of tapping ones own emotional intelligence - the courage to confront our own vulnerability. This is a book from the heart and is one that you will read again and again.

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Summary: Take Charge of Your Life
Review: Whether in your personal life or professional life, The Art of Leading Yourself gives you the tools and life changing information to help you accomplish what you want in life. It also shows you how to remove obstacles, real or imagined, and shows you what you have to do to create the results you want. This book is different than 99% of the success and self help books that are out there. The ideas and examples it gives are
simple, sometimes surprisingly so, but at the same time they can

revolutionize your thinking. This book goes beyond the typical
motivational, slap-on-the back, "you can do it" book. It offers
not hype, but hope based on solid advice and suggestions.
I recommend it as a must read!
Judy Peterson, author, "Follow Your Heart and Discover God's Dream for You", speaker, and businesswoman.