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Summary: Superb approach
Review: The author has done well with his latest book. Again, he challenges us to look at success at work from a different perspective using EQ, a concept that works and improves performance. Its insight and well-written style is worth the purchase.Even if you're completely sold on the EQ idea, it never hurts to complement your toolkit with a book on leadership skills development, a process that also works. My company uses several in its training programs; I recommend a class favorite: ""The Leader's Guide: 15 Essential Skills.""
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Summary: Tremendous work by Mr. Daniel Goleman
Review: Dear Readers, This book was mainly written for Business. As I went through this book, I find it appliable to our daily life. A great job by author. Bijesh
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Summary: Daniel is caught between the neocortex and the amygdala!
Review: Poor Daniel, reviews to this particular book are between the extremes. On the other hand I believe it is highly beneficial to read what each has said. From my point of view, I believe Daniel has developed more wisdom with this book. As I remember reading through his first book, I got the feeling that he was overwhelmed with the facts in his hands, at the time. His first book was the work of an astonished researcher. With this book however the voice of an assertive authority is much louder. Daniel has rearranged his thoughts in this book, though couldn't help getting rid of his original examples. I felt more comfortable reading through this book as it has a very clear structure. As a professional trainer, I needed no explanations on how to develop the competencies listed. As an author also, I highly empathize with the comments that were against the book's focus or content as I learned from them that one has to be extremely careful about defining the target reader for a specific book. As a reader, however, I felt completely at ease with this book, the way it is.
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Summary: Sheer Disappointment
Review: Compared to the auther's first book that has bought me such a new insight into human nature, the second book is like an old man reiterating what he has learnt in the past and see everything through the same len. Maybe what he said is still right, but it gives me a feeling that the idea are not all interconnected, well-knitted and insightful. The theme of the book is simple: The business circle has further proven his EQ theory. The volume of supporting data only highlight the hollowness of the idea presented in the book
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Summary: Another depressing addition to psych-lite for managers
Review: Although the art of management remains to some extent a mystery, and managers thus eager for true insights into the underlying framework for personal relations, there is still really no excuse for such simplistic platitudes.
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Summary: Interesting book for EQ newbies; don't mistake for self-help
Review: A friend of mine brought this book along on a recent vacation we took together and I ended up reading it over the course of a couple days. The author's claim that emotional intelligence is more important than raw smarts for effectiveness at work (a point that many other reviewers griped about) rung very true as I considered the many people I've worked with and managed. Several other reviewers complained that the book does not offer any fresh or new ideas from his previous or other books. This may be true, but this book was my first reading on the topic of emotional intelligence. I found it pretty well done and quite thought provoking. If you're looking for a self-help type book that will show you how to gain emotional intelligence for your job, this book will probably disappoint you. I don't think that's the intent of the book. The amount of selling for his consulting company seemed harmless and minimal to me.
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Summary: Indispensable, alters the whole notion of competence
Review: As the author of a business book myself, I was recently asked during an interview what ten business books I would recommend. Without hesitation, I suggested Mr. Goleman's book. He shows exactly why emotional intelligence makes such a significant difference in the workplace, and why, as a society, we need to devote more resources to emotional literacy.
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Summary: A potboiler followup to his original book on emotional intel
Review: This book was extremely disappointing. I read Goleman's original book on emotional intelligence and found it interesting. I purchased this book based on its title about working with emotional intelligence. I expected some guidance about how to work with people (employees) to improve aspects of their emotional intelligence. For example, how to help a person who is weak in self-confidence. This book, however, simply repeats the same thing over and over - company A instituted some training in emotional intelligence and it really helped them. Then, company B instituted some training ... Just like politics, helping people is 'local' or person-to-person. It appears that Goleman's answer to problems that people have is 'hire people who don't have those problems.' This book seems to be an attempt to profit from the success of his first book when he has nothing more to say.
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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: Unfortunate commercialization of a undefined construct
Review: This book was a huge disappointment for someone looking for theoretical insight towards a more defined construct of emotional intelligence. Goleman's previous book was insightful and did not carry the obvious plugging of his EQ consulting service. The book offered no new ideas and only contributed to muddying the construct of emotional intelligence. Goleman is following (maybe leading) the group of individuals trying to cash in on the 'hot' idea of EQ in corporate America. I hope the concept of emotional intelligence doesn't fall to the waste side as a result of poor application and research. This is not the book for you, if you are looking for anything more than a self help, feel good about your inadequacies book.
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