The Emotionally Intelligent Leader: Book summary & analysis

This book was helpful to me, it had good advice and helped me clarify some thoughts and feelings I've been having around leadership that I had not previously been able to articulate. Goleman argues that one of the most important jobs of a leader is to regulate the emotional atmosphere of the communi......more

I DIDN'T FINISH THIS. I got through about 36-40% and had to stop. My god is it redundant. I probably absorbed a little, but nothing I couldn't have learned in a 1-5 page summary of the book- and I took extensive notes. In the end the absolutely terrible writing distracted me far too much from any rea......more

Mixed feelings about this. 1) The first half of the book was awesome - the framework of leadership styles, and the personal leadership development plan. 2) The second half of the book - about organization-level EI leadership development - was a complete bore. It was itself what it most criticised: len......more

Originally published in 2002, it is easy for me to think there isn't a lot that is new. The reason being is that much of what this book contains formed the foundation for so much subsequent discussion, writing and thought in leadership and emotional intelligence. The book works through several secti......more

Class assignment: I created a blog for this book at [URL not allowed] that contains videos form the authors and other reviews about this book. According to the book PRIMAL LEADERSHIP REALIZING THE POWER OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie M......more