{"id":60,"date":"2008-10-14T01:06:16","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T01:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/?p=60"},"modified":"2013-10-27T04:14:37","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T04:14:37","slug":"emotional-intelligence-working-with-emotional-intelligence-primal-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/2008\/10\/14\/emotional-intelligence-working-with-emotional-intelligence-primal-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Emotional Intelligence \/ Working with Emotional Intelligence \/ Primal Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been reading the books backwards (newest to oldest).\u00a0 Each holds some gems inside lots of fluff.\u00a0 Goleman&#8217;s premise is emotional competencies (listening, empathy, etc.) form a separate category of intelligence.\u00a0 I can agree with that.\u00a0 Unfortunately, this has become a business franchise for him, so I think he takes it too far.\u00a0 He asserts it is THE defining intelligence of star performers.\u00a0 I can agree they are neglected, and are of prime importance to leaders.\u00a0 However, in light of Marcus Buckingham&#8217;s books, I think that Goleman is trying to fit all the characteristics of star performers into an emotional intelligence frame work.\u00a0 To a significant degree that is putting square pegs into a round hole.\u00a0 The thesis is easy to swallow at first, as the book is written in the standard business best-seller sensational journalist format.\u00a0 This contrasts with Buckingham; he writes in a pragmatic, self-help format.\u00a0 That said, we have a lot of work to do on our emotional intelligence.\u00a0 I would recommend reading Primal Leadership of the three as it discusses the types of leadership problems I have seen at work over, and over again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been reading the books backwards (newest to oldest).\u00a0 Each holds some gems inside lots of fluff.\u00a0 Goleman&#8217;s premise is emotional competencies (listening, empathy, etc.) form a separate category of intelligence.\u00a0 I can agree with that.\u00a0 Unfortunately, this has become a business franchise for him, so I think he takes it too far.\u00a0 He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/2008\/10\/14\/emotional-intelligence-working-with-emotional-intelligence-primal-leadership\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Emotional Intelligence \/ Working with Emotional Intelligence \/ Primal Leadership<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,4],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eq","category-personal","tag-daniel-goleman"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165,"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lippaudio.org\/BookReviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}