Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ - Hardcover

"A thoughtfully written, persuasive account explaining emotional intelligence and why it can be crucial to your career."--USA Today

"Good news to the employee looking for advancement [and] a wake-up call to organizations and corporations."--The Christian Science Monitor

"Anyone interested in leadership . . . should get a copy of this book. In fact, I recommend it to all readers anywhere who want to see their organizations in the phone book in the year 2001."--Warren Bennis, The New York Times Book Review

"Fascinating...It's a winner." - New York Times "A smart, adventurous book...Goleman strikes a blow here for both science and common sense." - Philadelphia Inquirer. "Impressive in its scope and depth, staggering in its implications, Emotional Intelligence gives us an entirely new way of looking at the root causes of many of the ills of our families and our society." - Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., author of Coming 'to Our Senses. "Mr. Goleman is a teacher at ease with his subject...mak[ing] lively connections between the wealth of new understandings and the riches of older wisdom about our affective lives." - New York Times Book Review. "Goleman's highly readable and wide-ranging exploration of the best research available by modern psychologists and educators provides important insights into the true meaning of intelligence." - San Francisco Chronicle. "An original contribution to the question that has fascinated thinkers for millennia : how are we to use the passions to understand our circumstances and engage in communal life ?" -Peter D. Kramer, M.D., author of Listening to Prozac. "At last, a psychology that gives equal time to the intelligence of emotions." - Howard Gardner, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University. "A revolutionary, paradigm-shattering idea-the kind of idea that does not just advance the conversation, but permanently alters it." - Harvard Business Review.