Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“What distinguishes leaders in medicine goes far beyond that knowledge, into interpersonal skills like empathy, conflict resolution, and people development.” — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
It is difficult to spread the contagion of excitement without having a sense of purpose and direction. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
IQ and technical skills are important, but emotional intelligence is the sine qua non of leadership. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“But these most visible leadership abilities build not just on empathy, but also on managing ourselves and sensing how what we do… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Gifted leadership occurs when heart and head--feeling and thought--meet. These are the two winds that allow a leader to soar. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
One of the leading theories of why electroconvulsive therapy is effective for most severe depressions is that it causes a loss of… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
The best leaders don’t know just one style of leadership—they’re skilled at several, and have the flexibility to switch between styles as… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
A leader tuned out of his internal world will be rudderless; one blind to the world of others will be clueless; those… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Great leaders, the research shows, are made as they gradually acquire, in the course of their lives and careers, the competencies that… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Comparing the three domains, I found that for jobs of all kinds, emotional competencies were twice as prevalent among distinguishing competencies as… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“circuitry. Studies of neurological patients with damaged prefrontal–limbic circuitry confirm that their cognitive capacities may remain intact, while their emotional intelligence abilities… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Leaders with empathy do more than sympathize with people around them: they use their knowledge to improve their companies in subtle, but… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
What really matters for success, character, happiness and life long achievements is a definite set of emotional skills - your EQ -… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“Yvonne Sell, the Hay Group’s director of the leadership and talent practice in the United Kingdom, who did the study, found such… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ...… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
When the darkness is seen as a necessary prelude to the creative light, one is less likely to ascribe frustration to personal inadequacy or… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
All the classical meditation traditions, in one way or another, stress nonattachment to the self as a goal of practice. Oddly, this dimension is… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Overloading attention shrinks mental control. Life immersed in digital distractions creates a near constant cognitive overload. And that overload wears out self-control. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
What seems to set apart those at the very top of competitive pursuits from others of roughly equal ability is the degree to which,… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“What distinguishes leaders in medicine goes far beyond that knowledge, into interpersonal skills like empathy, conflict resolution, and people development.” — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
“Richard Davidson, a University of Wisconsin psychologist. He discovered that people who have greater activity in the left frontal lobe, compared to the right,… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Emotional 'literacy' implies an expanded responsibility for schools in helping to socialize children. This daunting task requires two major changes: that teachers go beyond… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
The social brain is in its natural habitat when we're talking with someone face-to-face in real time. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
The ability to handle stress increases with the practice of meditation. In a culture like ours in which inner, spiritual growth is totally neglected… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
