Daniel Goleman Quotes

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort

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  Emotional, Self, Accomplishment

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.83, Bantam

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• The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay.

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  Children, Feelings, Emotion

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• Compassion begins with attention.

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  Compassion, Attention

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

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  Leadership, Adults

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• People learn what they want to learn. If learning is forced on us, even if we master it temporarily, it is soon forgotten.

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  Passion, Learning, People

  Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, Annie McKee (2013). “Primal Leadership: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence”, p.99, Harvard Business Press

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

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  Attention, Littles, Assets

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• Life without passion would be a dull wasteland of neutrality, cut off and isolated from the richness of life itself.

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  Passion, Cutting, Richness Of Life

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.101, Bantam

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Remember, empathy need not lead to sympathetically giving in to the other side’s demands—knowing how someone feels does not mean agreeing with them.

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  Mean, Knowing, Giving

  Daniel Goleman (2009). “Working with Emotional Intelligence”, p.140, A&C Black

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