Daniel Goleman Quotes

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• If your emotional abilities aren't in hand, if you don't have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can't have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.

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  Smart, Emotional, Self

  "The Weeping, the Window, the Way: Will Suffering Make You Bitter Or Better?". Book by John O. Dozier, 2010.

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• The best leaders don’t know just one style of leadership—they’re skilled at several, and have the flexibility to switch between styles as the circumstances dictate.

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  Leader, Style, Circumstances

  Harvard Business Review, Clayton M. Christensen, Jim Collins, Peter F. Drucker, Daniel Goleman (2017). “HBR Classics Boxed Set (16 Books)”, p.262, Harvard Business Press

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• Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical skill combined.

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  Jobs, Emotional, Skills

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• True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.

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  Pain, Mean, Helping Others

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• When we focus on others, our world expands.

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  Our World, Focus, Empathy

  Daniel Goleman (2011). “Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships”, p.54, Random House

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• Gifted leadership occurs when heart and head--feeling and thought--meet. These are the two winds that allow a leader to soar.

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  Heart, Wind, Two

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• Empathic, emotionally intelligent work environments have a good track record of increasing creativity, improving problem solving and raising productivity.

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  Creativity, Intelligent, Track

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• One aspect of a successful relationship is not just how compatible you are, but how you deal with your incompatibility.

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  Successful, Incompatibility, Aspect

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• Compassion begins with attention.

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  Compassion, Attention

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• For better or worse, intelligence can come to nothing when emotions hold sway.

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  Emotion

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.32, Bantam

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• CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise - and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.

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  Emotional, Ceo, Intellect

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.16, Bantam

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• Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection - or compassionate action.

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  Compassion, Our World, Self

  "Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships". Book by Daniel Goleman, September 19, 2006.

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• As much as 80% of adult "success" comes from EQ.

  Daniel Goleman

  Leadership, Adults

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• IQ and technical skills are important, but emotional intelligence is the sine qua non of leadership.

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  Emotional, Skills, Important

  "What Makes a Leader?". Harvard Business Review, November - December 1998.

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• In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels

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  Inspirational, Real, Thinking

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.38, Bantam

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• Empathetic people are superb at recognizing and meeting the needs of clients, customers, or subordinates. They seem approachable, wanting to hear what people have to say. They listen carefully, picking up on what people are truly concerned about, and respond on the mark.

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  People, Empathy, Needs

  Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, Annie McKee (2013). “Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the Authors: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence”, p.44, Harvard Business Review Press

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• The more socially intelligent you are, the happier and more robust and more enjoyable your relationships will be.

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  Intelligent, Robust, Enjoyable

  "Sociability: It's all in your mind". Interview with Sharon Jayson, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 24, 2006.

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• People who are optimistic see a failure as due to something that can be changed so that they can succeed next time around, while pessimists take the blame for the failure, ascribing it to some characteristic they are helpless to change.

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  Optimistic, People, Succeed

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.147, Bantam

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• Simple inattention kills empathy, let alone compassion. So the first step in compassion is to notice the other's need. It all begins with the simple act of attention.

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  Simple, Compassion, Empathy

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• Emotional self-control is NOT the same as overcontrol, the stifling of all feeling and spontaneity....when such emotional suppression is chronic, it can impair thinking, hamper intellectual performance and interfere with smooth social interaction. By contrast, emotional competence implies we have a choice as to how we express our feelings.

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  Emotional, Thinking, Self

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• One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.

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  Focus, Way, Distraction

  "The Benefits of a Productive Cocoon" by Daniel Goleman, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 24, 2013.

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• Attention is a little-noticed and underrated mental asset.

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  Attention, Littles, Assets

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• Leaders with empathy do more than sympathize with people around them: they use their knowledge to improve their companies in subtle, but important ways.

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  People, Empathy, Leader

  Daniel Goleman (2017). “What Makes a Leader? (Harvard Business Review Classics)”, p.23, Harvard Business Press

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• Cognitive skills such as big-picture thinking and long-term vision were particularly important. But when I calculated the ratio of technical skills, IQ, and emotional intelligence as ingredients of excellent performance, emotional intelligence proved to be twice as important as the others for jobs at all levels.

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  Jobs, Emotional, Thinking

  Harvard Business Review, Daniel Goleman, Richard E. Boyatzis, Annie McKee (2015). “HBR's 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence (with featured article "What Makes a Leader?" by Daniel Goleman)(HBR's 10 Must Reads)”, p.3, Harvard Business Review Press

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• The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response.

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  Fighting, Emotional, Flight

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