La Inteligencia Emocional. Daniel Goleman

El comienzo es espectacularmente bueno: teorías médicas sustentadas en estudios; análisis médicos de la composición química del cerebro y de cómo las emociones afectan la corteza superior; como la amígdala afecta nuestra manera de pensar, dejándonos a merced de las emociones que a veces nos dominan... El libro es sumamente interesante en sus primeros capítulos, aunque después se vuelve canson y aburrido. Al tratar de pasar de un libro científico a un libro de autoayuda sobre como mejorar nuestros hábitos emocionales, el libro se torna canson y soso, repetitivo. Siento cierta aversión a los libros de autoayuda y cuando empecé a leer este pensé que no iba a degenerar en eso, pero me equivoque. De todas formas el libro es excelente en su tema y en su tratamiento y trata de muchas cosas que ya los sabios de la antigüedad sabían: las emociones juegan un papel importante en nuestra vida, al punto de que el ser humano, ese ser pensante, es un ser sintiente y la razón que nos guía se deja llevar la mayoría de las veces por la pasión que la domina. El autor es un hombre sumamente equilibrado en el tratamiento del tema y no nos da las falsas esperanzas de algunos libros que aseguran que con una buena actitud emocional, podemos eliminar cualquier tipo de enfermedad. Eso es ser simplista y tratar de engañar cuando no a los bobos, sino a la gente que esta desesperadamente enferma y que busca cualquier tipo de solución a sus problemas. El autor también nos guía a través de las distintas emociones que nos pueden causar daño, como son la ira, la angustia, el stress y demás compañeros, que socavan nuestro sistema inmunológico, inhiben nuestra inteligencia y nos hace propensos a ataques cardiacos. Muy buen libro para tener una perspectiva diferente de la vida y ser más conscientes de nuestras emociones, y darles el justo valor que se merecen.
Luis Méndez.

He leído la versión en inglés y ahora compro la versión española para regalársela a dos amigos. Este libro es una guía amena y muy bien documentada para comprender el proceso de formación de nuestras emociones y sentimientos y cómo éstos condicionan nuestra percepción de nosotros mismos, de los demás y de nuestro entorno. Por el mismo camino podemos tambien entender mejor a los que nos rodean y aumentar nuestra calidad de vida.

I loved this account of Aviators. Rock On

I FOUND THIS BOOK TO BE VERY ENJOYABLE. IT TOUCHED MANY EMOTIONS WITHIN ME. I LAUGHED, I CRIED, I BECAME ANGRY, AND I BECAME ELATED. I WAS ESPECIALLY HAPPY WHEN HEZEKIAH WAS ABLE TO OUT WITT HIS MASTER. I WOULD RECOMMEND THIS BOOK TO ANY YOUNG CHILD FOR THERE ARE MANY LESSONS TO BE GLEENED FROM THIS STORY. MS. COLEMAN HAS DONE AN EXCELLENT JOB IN SHARING AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY WITH CHILDREN OF ALL RACES. MY HAT IS OFF TO MS. COLEMAN. MAY SHE CONTINUE TO SHARE HER TALENT WITH US ALL.

This biography makes the reader realize that hard work can bring riches to one's life and I don't mean just money. Anyone who loves her job and saves money can accomplish anything. Kids should read this book and take Ola's message to heart. Find something you enjoy doing and make that your life's work!

I am so proud that this biography about the life of Oseola McCarty made the Texas Bluebonnet Reading List for 2000-2001! While reviewing this book for the library, I thought that Oseola's attitude about working hard, saving money, getting a good education, and sharing with others is exactly the kind of examples that we want to share with our children. Whenever I hear her name today and think about her generous gift to the University of Southern Mississippi, I am reminded that there is still honor, dignity, and value in doing work that brings pleasure. This wonderful biography about a remarkable woman's spirit is an inspiration to us all!

Ms. McCarty is exactly the type of person to which we, as parents, teachers, or librarians, should be exposing our children. This short book tells the story of how an uneducated black woman, who worked at only menial jobs, saved enough money to establish a college scholarship fund. There are important lessons about work ethic, education, saving money, and particularly about faith in God. This story should be read aloud to third grade and up. The book also includes information on setting up savings accounts.

The title of this book is definately misleading, there is no practical advice on "How " to work with emotional intelligence besides endless anecdotes and examples.

Even with this entire book of loosely collected anecdotes, the auther still failed to convince me that his conclusion is based on serious, scientic research with logical analysis.

I think the auther is very biased on EQ vs IQ, the importance of EQ is overly stated. We all know IQ provides a basic framework/blueprint of a person, while EQ can really make a person excel compared with other people in similar IQ level. It should also put these two concepts in context, how important EQ/IQ in a person's success is really a variable, depending on what field, what job and what role a person is playing. In high-tech field, for example, for a technical position, I would rather hire a person with extraordinary IQ with average EQ, cause I know s/he could possibly perform as efficient as a group of 5 to10 people with average IQ. But for a tech manager position, a person with high EQ, reasonable IQ and profound knowledge in respective field would be a good fit. The way the author presents EQ is very simplistic and misleading!

Since the publication of Daniel Goleman's first book, Emotional Intelligence he has generated a remarkable industry around the topic. In this book from 2000, Goleman applies the ideas of his previous book to the workplace. Why should executives bother with this soft stuff? According to research cited by Goleman (see the summary in Appendix 2) almost all of the abilities that distinguished stars from average performers were emotional competencies. While pattern recognition and "big picture" thinking were correlated with outstanding performance, cognitive abilities in general - above a certain threshold - did not have significant correlation. "Emotional intelligence" refers to a set of competencies that characterizes how people manage feelings, interact, and communicate. Building on previous work by others, Goleman characterizes emotional intelligence as being founded on five personal and social competencies: Self-Awareness, Self-Regulation, Motivation, Empathy, and Social Skills. Each of these five is further analyzed into 12 personal and 13 social competencies such as Accurate Self-Assessment, Self-Control, Initiative, Developing Others, Influence, Conflict Management, and Building Bonds.
Unlike IQ, we can continue to improve emotional intelligence. Working With Emotional Intelligence is not a how-to book in the usual sense. It will help any executive understand the importance of EI in all its diverse aspects as well as showing examples of strong and weak EI in individual and organizational contexts. Improving is not easy work. Goleman explains the neurological basis of much of EI, including the role of the amygdala (which can make us impulsive and which affects our resilience under stress) and its interaction with the prefrontal lobes (which together also affect the ability to adapt to change), and the role of the catecholamines adrenaline and noradrenaline (which allow us to distinguish good stress from bad stress). Goleman looks at "empathic design" (p.139ff) and the contagious effects of emotions on groups, among other important applications in the workplace. He also provides a three-page list of "Guidelines for Emotional Competence Training". Although parts of Working With Emotional Intelligence will strike you as the obvious dressed up with stories, you can extract some important information by scanning through this book. In an age of record levels of job stress (according to an October 2002 study), any words of wisdom on this subject deserve a hearing.

How we need to over ride our emotions sometimes! Daniel Goleman's book is indeed an insight to cultivate one's mind emotionally. Understanding and raising emotional intelligence is essential to your success and leadership potentials. Daniel selects examples and anecdotes from the Fortune 500 companies which shows the competency to deal with various factors at workplace. The training tools, conflict management, building bonds and motivation, encouragement and inspirations are really necessary not with the IQs only but with the 'Emotional Intelligence skills' which enhance leadership to excel. The author shows the way how to manage feelings, interact, communicate and tackle with the issues in organization. Initiative, self control, optimism are some key factors of personal competency which make the emotional control board of the mind geared up to treat right, care and understand. A must read for every business. Its never an arrogance, ego or pride but be in tune with 'Emotional Intelligence'- Thats the trick of the trades for every savvy Leader.

as an environmentalist (read: life-long tree hugger), i picked up this book with the hopes of finding some new information. this book served more as an overview of past environmentalist writings than a display of original thought. i'd recommend it as a starting point for environmental research, but if you're already knowledgable in the field, this probaby isn't the book for you.

It would be a mistake to think of this book as a primer to a sort of generic "environmentalism". Coleman's book does have a strong ecological focus, but it's really an introduction to the ideas of the global Green movement, with a particular emphasis on how the Greens' radical democracy has strong roots in the American revolutionary tradition. I strongly reccommend this book for anyone, but it will be of particular interest to those interested in the aspects of the Green movement other than environmentalism, people with a strong interest in confederalism or other populist democracy, and even ideological conservatives who are curious about the Greens.