Emotional Intelligence Myths #2: EQ in more important than IQ
There is a commonly held belief that EQ, not IQ is the best predictor of success. There is much debate about which is the more important. A major cause of this belief is no doubt due to the subtitle of Daniel Goleman’s seminal 1995 book Emotional Intelligence: Why it can matter more than IQ. Since then EQ expert after EQ expert quotes statistics such as people with average IQs outperform those with the highest IQs 70 per cent of the time and explain the difference as being due to emotion.....
Read MoreEmotional Intelligence Myths #1: Plato By Christopher Golis MA MBA FAICD FAIM
I will begin my blogs for EI-Hub by writing a series about the myths that have developed in the field of emotional intelligence. You can see from my biography that I was trained at the University of Cambridge and the London Business School. Five years at those two institutions make you a serious sceptic. Recently more and more blogs on Emotional Intelligence are quoting Plato, in particular “All learning has an emotional base." If you have ever read Plato you would be confused by th.....
Read MoreEmotional Intelligence: Core Emotions and Five Factor theory
In mid-June of 2014, the famed psychologist and emotions expert Paul Ekman sent a survey to 248 researchers active in his discipline. He achieved a moderately high response rate of 60%. The idea was to see what the fast-growing field actually agreed upon in interpreting the scientific evidence on the nature of emotion. He recently published an article about the results: What Scientists Who Study Emotion Agree About The survey showed that at least one notion is solid: Universal emotions .....
Read More5 Ways to Boost Your Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace???
I recently came across this blog by Ken Sterling: 5 Ways to Boost Your Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace The article is similar to many in the emotional intelligence area and contains what I believe are many of the same mistakes. Let us look at the suggestions that Ken Sterling makes: Avoid the Negatives – Starting with your Own The intermingling of emotional intelligence with positive thinking is perhaps the most common mistake made by many supposed EQ experts. The typica.....
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