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There is an old-fashioned word for the body of skills that emotional intelligence represents: character.
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (1995)
Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own.
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (1995)
IQ is a genetic given that cannot be changed by life experience, and that our destiny in life is largely fixed by these aptitudes.
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (1995)
In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels. These two fundamentally different ways of knowing interact to construct our mental life.
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (1995)
‘My hypotheses are generated from experience with TM but are framed in terms of meditation in general in the hope that they will be tested on a variety of different systems’.
There are many leaders, not just one. Leadership is distributed. It resides not solely in the individual at the top, but in every person at every level who, in one way or another, acts as a leader to a group of followers — wherever in the organization that person is, whether shop steward, team head, or CEO.
Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee (2002)
If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.
Daniel Goleman (1995)
People who are emotionally adapt — who know and manage their feelings well, and who read and deal effectively with other people's feelings — are at an advantage in any domain in life, whether in romance and intimate relationships or picking up the unspoken rules that govern success in organizational politics.
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (1995)
Our emotional intelligence determines our potential for learning the practical skills that are based on its five elements: self-awareness, motivation, self-regulation, empathy, and adeptness in relationships
Working with Emotional Intelligence (1998)