Summary:
Daniel Goleman is a successful writer, psychologist, and science journalist who contributed for The New York Times for twelve years and wrote numerous publications in his specialized fields such as education, science, and leadership. His most notable journalistic achievements is the best-selling book, Emotional Intelligence, and the Emotional Competencies (Goleman) model which is a test to estimate one’s emotional intelligence (EQ) and by that, determine one’s leadership performance. In his article “What makes a leader?”, Goleman introduces five significant dimensions of EQ – self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills. After that, he goes deeper to explain each element and how they affect the effectiveness of leadership success. Over years, people have debated about EQ in business and Goleman has successfully discovered the role of emotional intelligence and its crucial impact on self-growth and self-improvement of the managers and their leadership traits (Goleman , 2004).
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People who have a high level of emotional intelligence (EI) tend to become more aware of their own attitudes and thus, they are capable of controlling every situation and its outcome. Besides the chief qualities that several great leaders would have such as “intelligence, toughness, determination, and vision”, emotional intelligence is also “the key attribute” that evaluate if a person has the potential to become a leader (Goleman , 2004). To think of a leader with high EQ, picture a leader who is able to control his temper, show empathy, and build friendly relationships with others. If a leader has a tendency to continuously lose his temper, he will not be conscious enough to give careful instructions and make wise
Daniel Goleman is a successful writer, psychologist, and science journalist who contributed for The New York Times for twelve years and wrote numerous publications in his specialized fields such as education, science, and leadership. His most notable journalistic achievements is the best-selling book, Emotional Intelligence, and the Emotional Competencies (Goleman) model which is a test to estimate one’s emotional intelligence (EQ) and by that, determine one’s leadership performance. In his article “What makes a leader?”, Goleman introduces five significant dimensions of EQ – self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills. After that, he goes deeper to explain each element and how they affect the effectiveness of leadership success. Over years, people have debated about EQ in business and Goleman has successfully discovered the role of emotional intelligence and its crucial impact on self-growth and self-improvement of the managers and their leadership traits (Goleman , 2004).
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People who have a high level of emotional intelligence (EI) tend to become more aware of their own attitudes and thus, they are capable of controlling every situation and its outcome. Besides the chief qualities that several great leaders would have such as “intelligence, toughness, determination, and vision”, emotional intelligence is also “the key attribute” that evaluate if a person has the potential to become a leader (Goleman , 2004). To think of a leader with high EQ, picture a leader who is able to control his temper, show empathy, and build friendly relationships with others. If a leader has a tendency to continuously lose his temper, he will not be conscious enough to give careful instructions and make wise