Emotional Intelligence: What Makes a Leader?

Daniel Goleman

Oct 2010 · Simply Magazine Incorporated · Narrated by Deaver Brown

About this audiobook

Emotional Intelligence - What Makes a Leader?

Goleman was the first to identify emotional intelligence as a critical factor in leadership performance and success. He wrote about this succinctly in his best selling book, Emotional Intelligence. His Harvard Business Review (HBR) article is the first identifying and analyzing specifically how emotional intelligence is a critical factor in management success and CEO performance.

This audio book provides a core summary of his best seller, as well as focusing on his insights about the importance of a keen emotional intelligence for management and CEO performance.

Goleman identifies and discusses in details the five critical components of emotional intelligence (ei): self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, and social skills. Goleman analyzes how executives with strong ei skills make the best managers and CEOs. Coleman provides numerous approaches throughout the audio book about how to improve the reader’s ei.

Keywords: Daniel Goleman, HBR, Harvard, Harvard Business School, HBS, emotional intelligence, self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy, social skills, talents, skills, CEO, executive, manager.

Ratings and reviews

The concepts in the book are important but the delivery was poor. The narrator sounds unprepared and unfamiliar with the content, pauses are out of place etc. I think self reading is better option

Interesting but very short book.

Good

About the author

Daniel Goleman is a distinguised professor at Harvard Business School, noted writer and consultant, and continues to work on his subject.