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Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence

Daniel Goleman Annie McKee Richard Boyatzis

Leadership

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Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence

Daniel Goleman's international bestseller Emotional Intelligence forever changed our concept of "being smart," showing how emotional intelligence (EI)-how we handle ourselves and our relationships-can determine life success more than IQ. Then, Working with Emotional Intelligence revealed how stellar career performance also depends on EI.

Now, Goleman teams with renowned EI researchers Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee to explore the role of emotional intelligence in leadership. Unveiling neuroscientific links between organizational success or failure and "primal leadership," the authors argue that a leader's emotions are contagious. If a leader resonates energy and enthusiasm, an organization thrives; if a leader spreads negativity and dissonance, it flounders. This breakthrough concept charges leaders with driving emotions in the right direction to have a positive impact on earnings or strategy.

Drawing from decades of analysis within world-class organizations, the authors show that resonant leaders-whether CEOs or managers, coaches or politicians-excel not just through skill and smarts, but by connecting with others using EI competencies like empathy and self-awareness. And they employ up to six leadership styles-from visionary to coaching to pacesetting-fluidly interchanging them as the situation demands.

The authors identify a proven process through which leaders can learn to:

� Assess, develop, and sustain personal EI competencies over time

� Inspire and motivate people

� Cultivate resonant leadership throughout teams and organizations

� Leverage resonance to increase bottom-line performance

The book no leader in any walk of life can afford to miss, this unforgettable work transforms the art of leadership into the science of results.

Authors: Daniel Goleman is Codirector of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations at Rutgers University. Richard Boyatzis is Professor and Chair of the Department of Organizational Behavior at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. Annie McKee serves on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education and consults to business and organization leaders worldwide.

Publisher	Harvard Business Press
Release date	03/2002
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Comments by amazon customers about Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence

Great Read!
I am really enjoying this book. Its easy to read and full of great information to make leadership work for you.

Goleman's Best Book That Really Illustrates Key Concepts of Leadership
This Daniel Goleman's best book on this powerful topic. I love the burgeoning field of emotional intelligence. No doubt it's because the explosion in EI research is providing extremely convincing empirical research showing the immense value of the "soft" leadership areas I have made my life work. Primal Leadership provides the simplest framework yet for defining Emotional Intelligence. I know my bias for this book really shows through when I say that the framework fits perfectly with my leadership books, Growing @ the Speed of Change: Your Inspir-actional How-To Guide For Leading Yourself and Others through Constant Change, The Leader's Digest: Timeless Principles for Team and Organization Success, and Growing the Distance: Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success. In what Goleman and his colleagues call "Emotional Intelligence Domains and Associated Competencies," they outline a clear EI framework with two major components broken into four subsets that then define a series of supporting criteria within each subset. The first major component they call "Personal Competence: These capabilities determine how we manage ourselves." The two major subsets here are Self-Awareness and Self-Management. This is a perfect fit with the self-leadership messages of Growing the Distance and Growing @ the Speed of Change. The second major component they define as "Social Competence: These capabilities determine how we manage relationships." These two major subsets are Social Awareness and Relationship Management. These are exactly what The Leader's Digest focuses on. I have filed many passages and research from this landmark personal growth and leadership book. Here are two: "...now we have results from a range of industries that link leadership to climate and to business performance, making it possible to quantify the hard difference for business performance made by something as soft as the "feel" of a company." "Having a larger repertoire of emotional intelligence strengths can make a leader more effective because it means that leader is flexible enough to handle the wide-ranging demands of running an organization. Each style draws on different emotional intelligence abilities; the best leaders are able to use the right approach in the right moment, and flip from one to another as needed. People who lack the underlying abilities have a narrowed leadership repertoire, and so are too often stuck relying on a style that's ill matched to the challenge of the moment."

Enjoyed it
I bought these tapes because the book is the text for a class my daughter is taking as part of an MBA program. I enjoyed it even though I have no desire to be a leader.

Good book for research.
This was a good good for a student to do their research on leadership from a primal example.

Ideas to Ponder
Like a game if you take the time to do the surveys honestly. Maybe this would be a fun and heady book to use on a retreat with close friends w/ whom you could really be truthful. It may reveal more about the members of the group than you'd think. Well written but not, as with anything, to be taken hook, line and sinker.