The EQ Edge: Emotional Intelligence and Your Success

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The EQ Edge: Emotional Intelligence and Your Success

What is the most important dynamic of your makeup? Is it your A0 intelligence quotient? Or B0 emotional quotient? If you picked "A", you are partly correct. Your intelligence quotient can be a predictor of things such as academic achievement. But it is fixed and unchangeable. The real key to personal and professional growth, and happiness, is your emotional quotient, which you can nurture and develop. Stein and Howard E. Book, shows you how the dynamic of emotional intelligence works. By understanding EQ, you can build more meaningful relationships, boost your confidence and optimism, and respond to challenges with enthusiasm--all of which are essential ingredients of success.

The book features case studies and fascinating--and surprising--insights into EQ and the workplace. As an HR or line manager, this book will help you determine which personnel are the right fit for job opportunities and who among your staff will be the most promising leaders and drivers of your business. And because CEOs to front-line workers also have other roles--parent, spouse, caregiver to aging parents, neighbor, friend— The EQ Edge also describes how everyone can be more successful in these relationships. This book peels the onions on what EQ really is and teaches the reader to assess their own EQ and how to increase it.

This is the holy grail for career success. An organizational consultant and psychiatrist, Howard E. For more than a decade he has coached CEOs and senior managers on increasing their emotional intelligence so they can improve morale, teamwork, staff retention and productivity within their organizations. Book is a leading trainer of professionals worldwide in the administration and interpretation of the EQ-i.

He has lectured on emotional intelligence to organizations throughout the United States and Canada, and is an occasional contributor to the Report on Business section of The Globe and Mail. He is married to Linda, an art consultant, and they have two sons, Josh and Adam. To separate yourself from the This is the holy grail for career success. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.

To ask other readers questions about The EQ Edge , please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. This is a great companion book for those who have undertaken the EQ-i 2. As someone that falls into the latter category as my reason for reading this, I can certainly see myself using this book with clients or even just to remember certain elements of the tool and their meanings and applications. Mar 16, Anna Stevens rated it it was amazing.

Great book about Emotional Intelligence skills and sub-skills. The language is easy to understand. Examples are simple and relevant. I'd suggest to read this if you're curious how emotions impact your actions, interactions, and decision-making. Most of the self-identification questions are useful, and there are many good exercises for improving your own emotional intelligence. You can actually increase your EQi so it's worth investigating what is holding you back from fulfillment and how you might improve your ability to succeed at what is most important to you.

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Jan 23, Maja vujinovic rated it really liked it. Very eye opening and useful If you are looking for a book to better yourself this is it. Jan 08, Agustinus Susanto rated it really liked it.

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Apr 09, Erica rated it really liked it. Has great exercises, explains each point well. I think everyone could benefit from this book. EQ is very important in our holistic health, our success in family and friends and career. Jan 18, Sandra rated it liked it. It's one of the best EQ books I have, easy subject index in the back of the book. Some parts read like stereo instructions, but overall it's been good. Shallow overview This book gives a decent overview of the authors concept of Emotional Intelligence and promotes their EQ-i 2.

However, the overview is shallow and the stories are as well - often corny, not believable or too basic to make it interesting. Some of the book's statements are backed by research, but the research part of it only goes so far - would've liked to see a more complete discussion or the EQ concept, which still feels like a not well defined idea. Dec 16, Michael rated it really liked it Shelves: If you want to read a no nonsense book about Emotional Intelligence, this is the one.

I use it all the time as a reference for my coaching business. I have been using the EQi assessment described in the book for over ten years and have met with Steven Stein multiple times. If you get the Third Edition, check out p where you will see a small section about me and my research Jan 20, Peter rated it really liked it. I didn't do the exercises in this book, but I think they would be really useful in most circumstances.

This book helps give an understanding of what EQ is and how it can be used. In my opinion, EQ is useful in almost every situation.

I haven't read any other books on this topic, but this one seemed to be very detailed and useful. Jun 04, Matthew Woodcock rated it really liked it. Read this for work. We did a lot of homework with this and the book had some good suggestions and clarifications for work. Sep 01, Yury rated it really liked it. The book is very interesting and hands-on! I have read it when I had issues with time pressure and didn't have enough time and skills to really understand myself. Some exercise from the book are amazing.

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Elegant and simple tool to work with your underlying beliefs! Although I was always thinking that its kind of not quite "XXI century" to make it on paper, so I has even started developing an app for that, and its in development right now. Hope, I will finish it so The book is very interesting and hands-on!

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Hope, I will finish it soon. Jan 25, PeterBlackCoach rated it really liked it. The book examines the various EQ scales and sub-scales with both practical examples and self assessment exercises. Further details at http: I had just completed a workshop on Emotional Intelligence, so this book rounded out the theory nicely.

Beyond that, though, are some practical exercises - keep your journal handy! The writing wasn't gripping, but worth a read. Nov 20, Ana rated it it was amazing. I believe every young adult should read at least one or two books about emotional intelligence. This one is definitely a great start.

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