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‘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’.

— Daniel Goleman

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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)

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)

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