 | Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com FOREWORD BY PATRICK LENCIONI, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE FIVE DYSFUNCTIONS OF A TEAM.
Emotional Intelligence 2.0 is a book with a single purpose—increasing your EQ. Here’s what people are saying about it:
“Emotional Intelligence 2.0 succinctly explains how to deal with emotions creatively and employ our intelligence in a beneficial way.”
—THE DALAI LAMA
“A fast read with compelling anecdotes and good context in which to understand and improve.”
—NEWSWEEK
“Gives abundant, practical findings and insights with emphasis on how to develop EQ.”
—STEPHEN R. COVEY
“This book can drastically change the way you think about success…read it twice.”
—PATRICK LENCIONI
In today's fast-paced world of competitive workplaces and turbulent economic conditions, each of us is searching for effective tools that can help us to manage, adapt, and strike out ahead of the pack.
By now, emotional intelligence (EQ) needs little introduction—it’s no secret that EQ is critical to your success. But knowing what EQ is and knowing how to use it to improve your life are two very different things.
Emotional Intelligence 2.0 delivers a step-by-step program for increasing your EQ via four, core EQ skills that enable you to achieve your fullest potential:
1) Self-Awareness
2) Self-Management
3) Social Awareness
4) Relationship Management
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Average Customer Rating:   Outstanding I was very impressed with this book. It's the first I've seen that actually shows you how to increase your emotional intelligence, rather than just explaining what emotional intelligence is. It's filled with strategies to increase each of the four emotional intelligence skills: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management. I found the strategies very helpful, particularly because the books gives access to an online test that (based upon your results) tells you which strategies will increase your EQ the most.
The authors use excellent anecdotes to illustrate various concepts, and their research is compelling and original. Some of the information on emotional intelligence and job title (e.g. CEOs have the lowest EQs in the workforce, on average), is very revealing. My favorite anecdote in the book is the riveting story of a surfer who survives a run in with a 5,000 pound great white, by using his emotional intelligence.
All in all, an outstanding read that's a great value at $13! A Good reinforcement, but seems Shallow I read their Quick handbook on EQ and loved that book, it was an eye opener. When i picked this book i was looking for a step forward and concrete action items to improved EQ. While i like the book and there is an online password that lets you get your EQ score, i think the tips on improving EQ are a little shallow.
The author talks about 4 parameters that influence EQ: Self Awareness, Self Management, Social Awareness, and Relationship Management. This is all good but then the tips on its improvements are really a list of action items but only a page or 2 on each action item, which to me is shallow. There should be more detailed plan on improving EQ with stories etc to support it.
The foreward calls for reading this book twice, lets see if my opinion defers 2nd time around.
Thanks. Not Impressed Emotional Intelligence boils down to two things: Separating logic from emotions, and understanding people first. The "tips" themselves are not very helpful. Books like "How to Meet Friends and Influence People" and "7 Habits of Effective People" are much more helpful to apply in your everyday life. The "test" that is included is hardly an objective measure of emotional intelligence, yet the book relies heavily on this "test". Some of the tips in the different sections are helpful, but some are mindless drivel. I expected much more out of this book, but I was severely disappointed with the lack of logic (!) in the suggestions. Half the book is made up of the author proving that Emotional Intelligence is important, the test is definitive, and your rung in social society is dependent on emotional intelligence. Hopefully you won't make the same mistake as I did. The Right Information, in the Right Dose, at the Right Time
By now there has been enough written about the theory, history,research and background of EI that any attempt to recreate this in a book would be redundant. Anyone that is interested in learning more about these areas will find no shortage of reading material out there. What is needed at this point is more information and tools to help organizations and individuals apply and use EI in all situations in every day life.
Emotional Intelligence 2.0 gets right to the meat of the matter by recognizing the gap between our understanding of EI as a concept and our ability to apply it. It is this gap, or missing piece, that the authors address in the book.
In this they do an admirable job, breaking down the EI concepts into four areas. They then go on to explain the areas, give examples of what various levels of functioning in these areas look like and provide strategies for improving on these areas. At the end of the book there is a code to take a short EI test that gives valuable feedback. While the examples in the book are business ones, the same principles would apply just as well to the other areas of our life.
What perhaps isn't stated clearly is that EI is not a form of therapy. It is not prescriptive and provides tools to help individuals increase their effectiveness with the assumption that they are functioning at a
certain level. There is the assumption that the person has the ability to accurately perceive their situation and have a good degree of control over their emotions. For individuals who are have a great deal of difficulty controlling emotions, such as anger, professional therapy might be needed before they are able to benefit from powerful, yet simple, EI tools.
Excellent read, great examples Fascinating material, and well written book. It sums up the progression of the study of emotional intelligence over the last 10 or 15 yrs. Good read, finished it in a couple of hours on a plane ride! |  |
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