Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence

The harvard business review called emotional intelligence which discounts iq as the sole measure of one s abilities a revolutionary paradigm shattering idea and chose his article what makes a leader as one of ten must read articles from its archives.

Daniel goleman emotional intelligence. Daniel goleman s brilliant report from the frontiers of psychology and neuroscience offers startling new insight into our two minds the rational and the emotional and how they together shape our destiny. What emerges is an entirely new way to talk about being smart. Since 1995 when daniel goleman s groundbreaking book emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence is the ability to perceive emotions to access and generate emotions so as to assist thought to understand emotions and emotional knowledge and to reflectively regulate emotions so as to promote emotional and intellectual growth.

Mayer and salovey offered the first formulation of a concept they called emotional intelligence those. In 1990 in my role as a science reporter at the new york times i chanced upon an article in a small academic journal by two psychologists john mayer now at the university of new hampshire and yale s peter salovey. Why it can matter more than iq became an international bestseller emotional intelligence has become ubiquitous. The new science of human relationships.

Goleman is an internationally known psychologist who lectures frequently to professional groups business audiences and on college campuses.