Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence,   ISBN:9781591391845

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I am really enjoying this book. Its easy to read and full of great information to make leadership work for you.

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This Daniel Goleman's best book on this powerful topic. I love the burgeoning field of emotional intelligence. No doubt it's because the explosion in EI research is providing extremely convincing empirical research showing the immense value of the "soft" leadership areas I have made my life work.

Primal Leadership provides the simplest framework yet for defining Emotional Intelligence. I know my bias for this book really shows through when I say that the framework fits perfectly with my leadership books, Growing @ the Speed of Change: Your Inspir-actional How-To Guide For Leading Yourself and Others through Constant Change, The Leader's Digest: Timeless Principles for Team and Organization Success, and Growing the Distance: Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success. In what Goleman and his colleagues call "Emotional Intelligence Domains and Associated Competencies," they outline a clear EI framework with two major components broken into four subsets that then define a series of supporting criteria within each subset.

The first major component they call "Personal Competence: These capabilities determine how we manage ourselves." The two major subsets here are Self-Awareness and Self-Management. This is a perfect fit with the self-leadership messages of Growing the Distance and Growing @ the Speed of Change. The second major component they define as "Social Competence: These capabilities determine how we manage relationships." These two major subsets are Social Awareness and Relationship Management. These are exactly what The Leader's Digest focuses on.

I have filed many passages and research from this landmark personal growth and leadership book. Here are two:

"...now we have results from a range of industries that link leadership to climate and to business performance, making it possible to quantify the hard difference for business performance made by something as soft as the "feel" of a company."

"Having a larger repertoire of emotional intelligence strengths can make a leader more effective because it means that leader is flexible enough to handle the wide-ranging demands of running an organization. Each style draws on different emotional intelligence abilities; the best leaders are able to use the right approach in the right moment, and flip from one to another as needed. People who lack the underlying abilities have a narrowed leadership repertoire, and so are too often stuck relying on a style that's ill matched to the challenge of the moment."

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I bought these tapes because the book is the text for a class my daughter is taking as part of an MBA program. I enjoyed it even though I have no desire to be a leader.

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This was a good good for a student to do their research on leadership from a primal example.

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Like a game if you take the time to do the surveys honestly. Maybe this would be a fun and heady book to use on a retreat with close friends w/ whom you could really be truthful. It may reveal more about the members of the group than you'd think. Well written but not, as with anything, to be taken hook, line and sinker.