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Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence |  | Authors: Daniel Goleman, Richard E. Boyatzis, Annie McKee
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
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Pages: 336
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ISBN: 1591391849
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.4092019
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Publication Date: January 1, 2004
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Business leaders who maintain that emotions are best kept out of the work environment do so at their organization's peril. Bestselling author Daniel Goleman's theories on emotional intelligence (EI) have radically altered common understanding of what "being smart" entails, and in Primal Leadership, he and his coauthors present the case for cultivating emotionally intelligent leaders. Since the actions of the leader apparently account for up to 70 percent of employees' perception of the climate of their organization, Goleman and his team emphasize the importance of developing what they term "resonant leadership." Focusing on the four domains of emotional intelligence--self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management--they explore what contributes to and detracts from resonant leadership, and how the development of these four EI competencies spawns different leadership styles. The best leaders maintain a style repertoire, switching easily between "visionary," "coaching," "affiliative," and "democratic," and making rare use of less effective "pace-setting" and "commanding" styles. The authors' discussion of these methods is informed by research on the workplace climates engendered by the leadership styles of more than 3,870 executives. Indeed, the experiences of leaders in a wide range of work environments lend real-life examples to much of the advice Goleman et al. offer, from developing the motivation to change and creating an improvement plan based on learning rather than performance outcomes, to experimenting with new behaviors and nurturing supportive relationships that encourage change and growth. The book's final section takes the personal process of developing resonant leadership and applies it to the entire organizational culture. --S. Ketchum
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National Bestseller Available in Paperback Drawing from decades of research within world-class organizations, the authors show that great leaders-whether CEOs or managers, coaches or politicians-excel not just through skill and smarts, but by connecting with others using Emotional Intelligence competencies like empathy and self-awareness. The best leaders, they show, have "resonance"-a powerful ability to drive emotions in a positive direction to get results-and can fluidly interchange among a variety of leadership styles as the situation demands. Groundbreaking and timely, this book reveals the new requirements of successful leadership.
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Great Read! March 16, 2010
Ameache R. Grady
I am really enjoying this book. Its easy to read and full of great information to make leadership work for you.
 Goleman's Best Book That Really Illustrates Key Concepts of Leadership March 14, 2010
Jim Clemmer
This Daniel Goleman's best book on this powerful topic. I love the burgeoning field of emotional intelligence. No doubt it's because the explosion in EI research is providing extremely convincing empirical research showing the immense value of the "soft" leadership areas I have made my life work.
Primal Leadership provides the simplest framework yet for defining Emotional Intelligence. I know my bias for this book really shows through when I say that the framework fits perfectly with my leadership books, Growing @ the Speed of Change: Your Inspir-actional How-To Guide For Leading Yourself and Others through Constant Change, The Leader's Digest: Timeless Principles for Team and Organization Success, and Growing the Distance: Timeless Principles for Personal, Career, and Family Success. In what Goleman and his colleagues call "Emotional Intelligence Domains and Associated Competencies," they outline a clear EI framework with two major components broken into four subsets that then define a series of supporting criteria within each subset.
The first major component they call "Personal Competence: These capabilities determine how we manage ourselves." The two major subsets here are Self-Awareness and Self-Management. This is a perfect fit with the self-leadership messages of Growing the Distance and Growing @ the Speed of Change. The second major component they define as "Social Competence: These capabilities determine how we manage relationships." These two major subsets are Social Awareness and Relationship Management. These are exactly what The Leader's Digest focuses on.
I have filed many passages and research from this landmark personal growth and leadership book. Here are two:
"...now we have results from a range of industries that link leadership to climate and to business performance, making it possible to quantify the hard difference for business performance made by something as soft as the "feel" of a company."
"Having a larger repertoire of emotional intelligence strengths can make a leader more effective because it means that leader is flexible enough to handle the wide-ranging demands of running an organization. Each style draws on different emotional intelligence abilities; the best leaders are able to use the right approach in the right moment, and flip from one to another as needed. People who lack the underlying abilities have a narrowed leadership repertoire, and so are too often stuck relying on a style that's ill matched to the challenge of the moment."
Enjoyed it March 10, 2010
Cheerful Monk
I bought these tapes because the book is the text for a class my daughter is taking as part of an MBA program. I enjoyed it even though I have no desire to be a leader.
Good book for research. August 18, 2009
Corrie W. Evans (Stone Mountain, Georgia United States)
This was a good good for a student to do their research on leadership from a primal example.
Ideas to Ponder April 29, 2009
Cindy J. Kamberelis (NH)
Like a game if you take the time to do the surveys honestly. Maybe this would be a fun and heady book to use on a retreat with close friends w/ whom you could really be truthful. It may reveal more about the members of the group than you'd think. Well written but not, as with anything, to be taken hook, line and sinker.
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