A counter argument to Is Emotional Intelligence Overrated?
Earlier this month Adam Grant (a Wharton Business School Professor) posted a blog on the Huffington Post Emotional Intelligence is Overrated. The blog went viral in the Twittersphere. Grant described how he thought a CEO who considered EQ to be more important than IQ and who was spending millions on training and EQ assessment was wasting his company’s money. In the end they agreed to a study which using hundreds of salespeople demonstrated that IQ was 5 times more powerful that EQ in de.....
Read MoreThe Emotional Intelligence of Contrary Combinations Mover-Engineers
The two most common strong components in the Humm universe are the Mover and Engineer. Accordingly of all the combinations the Mover-Engineer (ME) is the most common. Unfortunately Mover-Engineers suffer psychological stress because the desire of the Engineer to concentrate on and complete one project conflicts with the desire of the Mover to meet people and multi-task. The positive is that once they have decided on a project, Mover-Engineers try single-mindedly to finish it, with impatient.....
Read MoreThe Emotional Intelligence of Contrary Combinations Hustler-Artists
Hustler-Artists are another contrary combination. Hustlers are social, manipulative and flexible. Artists are introverts, purists, and stubborn. Very high levels of these two components are rarely found together but when they do make for an interesting personality. I describe them as creatively cunning. They often change their approach to another unexpected angle, dismaying their subordinates, who become exhausted by the lack of consistency. They are very cynical in their attitudes to.....
Read MoreThe Emotional Intelligence of Contrary Combinations: The Doublechecker-Politician
As I have blogged earlier we should consider our temperament as a web with seven strands. Each strand represents one of the seven Humm components. We have all seven strands in our personality but some are stronger than others. Typically for most of us two strands are stronger than average, three are around average and two are weaker than average. What makes for interesting combinations is when the two stronger strands are antagonistic. For example take a temperament where the two stron.....
Read MoreChris Golis - Author
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Peter Morris, Executive Officer, Lomax Financial Group
Your presentation on 'Lifting your Level of Emotional Intelligence" to 10 CEOs scored an average 8.9 out of 10 for the topic and 8.5 for the presentation which is great. A couple of the attendees gave you a 10 out of 10, and the comments were:
- Great presentation. Very informative.
- Excellent presentation.
- made me think.
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