Daniel Goleman

“When Claudio Fernando-Araoz, head of research for the executive recruitment firm Egon Zehnder International, looked at CEOs who had succeeded and those who had failed, he found the same pattern in America, Germany and Japan: those who failed were hired on the basis of their drive, IQ, and business expertise – but fired for lack of emotional intelligence. They simply could not win over, or sometimes even just get along with, their board of directors, or their direct reports, or others on whom their own success depended.�

There's a video from TED of Daniel Goleman, the author of Emotional Intelligence making this talk on 'self' and 'other'. It's over in the Hub TV area if you want to watch it. Too much leadership and leadership development focusses on 'self', in my view. Whereas the key to effectively developing yourself, paradoxically, is to focus on others. The inner landscape develops as we focus on others.

This book is better known as Primal Leadership. Inexplicably, given the power of that title, the publisher in the UK decided to label it The New Leaders (yawn).