About the Author

Daniel Goleman, PH.D. is also the author of the worldwide bestseller Working with Emotional Intelligence and is co-author of Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence, written with Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee.

Dr. Goleman received his Ph.D. from Harvard and reported on the brain and behavioral sciences for The New York Times for twelve years, where he was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He was awarded the American Psychological Association's Lifetime Achievement Award and is currently a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science His other books include Destructive Emotions, The Meditative Mind, The Creative Spirit, and Vital Lies, Simple Truths.

Reviews

"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


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

Author Goleman now applies in the workplace the ideas in his prior best seller Emotional Intelligence (Bantam, 1995), contending that success and ability in a career cannot be determined solely by intelligence or other skills. Emotional traits making up "EI," and now played out in the corporate world in this follow-up, include self-awareness, motivation, self-control, influence, altruism, empathy, and the ability to love and be loved by others. Real-life examples abound in this serious attempt to relate what the author admits are soft skills in the hard-nosed world of business. With the landscape already carved out in the first work, this sequel is long on interviews, observations, and other attempts to indicate the value of understanding "EI" in business, but it could have benefited from serious editing. The excellent narration by Aaron Meza cannot make up for the listener's need to review the hard copy in order to follow the author's highly complex outline of ideas. Recommended only on demand in larger public libraries.-Dale Farris, Groves, TX

"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


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