Harvard Business Review – HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence

In his defining work on emotional intelligence, bestselling author Daniel Goleman found that it is twice as important as other competencies in determining outstanding leadership.

If you read nothing else on emotional intelligence, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We’ve combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you boost your emotional skills—and your professional success.

This book will inspire you to:

• Monitor and channel your moods and emotions
• Make smart, empathetic people decisions
• Manage conflict and regulate emotions within your team
• React to tough situations with resilience
• Better understand your strengths, weaknesses, needs, values, and goals
• Develop emotional agility

Contents

What Makes a Leader?
by Daniel Goleman

Primal Leadership: The Hidden Driver of Great Performance
by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee

Why It’s So Hard to Be Fair
by Joel Brockner

Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions
by Andrew Campbell, Jo Whitehead, and Sydney Finkelstein

Building the Emotional Intelligence of Groups
by Vanessa Urch Druskat and Steven B. Wol

The Price of Incivility: Lack of Respect Hurts Morale—and the Bottom Line
by Christine Porath and Christine Pearson

How Resilience Works
by Diane L. Coutu

Emotional Agility: How Effective Leaders Manage Their Negative Thoughts and Feelings
by Susan David and Christina Congleton

Fear of Feedback
by Jay M. Jackman and Myra H. Strober

The Young and the Clueless
by Kerry A. Bunker, Kathy E. Kram, and Sharon Ting