Comments on: Leadership: Social Intelligence is Essential

By: Bec

Bec — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:13:59 +0000

Dr Goleman,

I’m at University of Technology Sydney (Australia) and I’m writing an annotated bibliography of EI. Such a fascinating area of interest to me.
As a young leader myself managing a graduate program, do you think if one is reasonably defined in interpersonal and intrapersonal skills, then being close in age to those you manage can assist in the effective leadership and development of the graduates own individual emotional intelligence?

Secondly, I would also like to say that I whole heatedly agree that unlike IQ, EI or EQ can be learnt, and even more so developed. I’ve seen this happen to myself as I continue to grow and develop in my own profession, through personal and professional development I am gaining social intelligence skills that help me communicate with individuals I have to grow and develop as they begin their careers, whilst continuing to grow and understand my own areas of motivation.

By: puji

puji — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:39:49 +0000

what is the definition of primal leadership?

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By: I really wanna tell ya :: Social Intelligence, Self-Mastery, and Leadership

I really wanna tell ya :: Social Intelligence, Self-Mastery, and Leadership — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:48:38 +0000

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By: Mustika Sari Yuliastuti

Mustika Sari Yuliastuti — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:19:39 +0000

I agree with Dr. Goleman concept of EQ. I have learned and observed around my environment, I found that a person who has great EQ will be succeed in his/her carrier. While a person who has great IQ, sometimes getting fail.

Thank you.

By: Mustika Sari Yuliastuti

Mustika Sari Yuliastuti — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 06:15:09 +0000

I agree with Dr. Goleman concept of EQ. I’ve learned and observed around my enviroment, I found that person who has great EQ will succeed in his/her job. While person who has wonderful IQ, sometimes getting fail.

By: Rich Stewart

Rich Stewart — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:12:59 +0000

Dr. Goleman,

I am a Human Capital Development Ph.D. Student from the University of Southern Mississippi preparing to write my dissertation and would be very interested in using the Emotional and Social Competence Inventory as part of my dissertation.

I am also an executive at a Native American Casino and plan on looking at leadership among three Native American casinos (assuming the other two will give me permission). My question is why do people follow other people? This concept of Social Intelligence fits in with what I am thinking about.

Please contact me at my e-mail address if you would like to discuss it further or if I can use your inventory as part of my study. Thank you.

By: Marguerite Ham

Marguerite Ham — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:13:12 +0000

I have read your recent article in the Harvard Business Review, “Social Intelligence and the Biology of of Leadership”. It was excellent. I was talking with a group of colleagues about this topic and a question came up: Is there a test/tool/assessment to actually measure a person’s social intelligence? If you are hiring people and you want to understand/know their social intelligence ability how can you uncover the level of that skill?

It is evident the importance of Social Intelligence. The ability to connect with someone, the ability to sense when something is off and the courage to address it and talk about “the elephant in the room”.

Thank you for all your wonderful research and information on this topic!

By: mario

mario — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:51:07 +0000

…why , about you, is so hard to change the
“first impression” we make on people and how to use emotional intelligence to understand soon what in our verbal and non verbal communication is misleading our conversation partner ?

Thanks

mario

By: mario

mario — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:30:30 +0000

Dr. Goleman,

I am an italian engineer and I read your first book on Emotional Intelligence.
Don’t you think that fantastic leaders , people with incredible social nose , that understand
groups dinamics in advance , can have a bad EQ with their friends , partner ?