Another Emotional Intelligence Cornerstone is Crumbling
Each week BBC.com sends out a newsletter If You Only Read Six Things This Week. There is generally at least one article that piques my interest but this week there was 22 Carat Gold. The article Why Our Facial Expressions Don’t Reflect Our Feelings is a bombshell in the world of Emotional Intelligence. Since the publication of Goleman’s book Emotional Intelligence in 1995 one of the cornerstones of EQ theory has been Paul Ekman’s theory of Core Emotions based on Facial Expressio.....
Read MoreEmotional Intelligence and the Myers Briggs Type Indicator
One of the LinkedIn groups I belong to is The Emotional Intelligence Connection which has just under 10,000 members. Last week Robin Hills who runs Ei4Change posted a link to a white paper “Emotional Intelligence and the Myers Briggs Type Indicator” and I downloaded it. Robin has asked me for my comments. To his credit, Robin is the first MBTI acolyte I have read who describes the Myers Briggs a decision making system that uses four axes. Where a person prefers to get or focu.....
Read MoreThe Emotional Intelligence of Cheats
In my previous blog I defined the 7MTF/Humm as the “Five-Factor-Model + Corporate Bully + Corporate Psychopath.” I then came across an interesting article “Cheats Smell Success” by Ruth Ostrow in the Australian (7/4/18). According to the article psychologists say we all cheat to varying degrees and that it is a behaviour that we pick up while young or at school. Subsequently Ostrow argues that cheating is a natural part of Darwinian evolution and that narcissistic personality .....
Read MoreNLP and Emotional Intelligence
I recently received a marketing email from The Coaching Room. As I do coaching myself I clicked on the offer only to discover that its base technology was NLP. I told their representative making the follow-up phone call that I used a different technology and that I had my doubts about the scientific validity of NLP which surprised the caller. These doubts were reinforced by a recent blog “Another nail in the coffin…”. The cornerstone of NLP technology is the VAK (Visual-Audio-.....
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