Emotional Intelligence: the difference between psychopaths and sociopaths
Twice in the last two weeks I have been involved in discussions about corporate psychopaths. Each time when I was saying someone was a psychopath I was told I was wrong, the person named was deemed to be a sociopath. However I was unable to get an answer when I asked what was the difference? Now having blogged extensively of the topic corporate psychopaths I think I duty bound to attempt to explain the difference. Sociopaths and psychopaths do share several behaviours includin.....
Read MoreReview of the Wisdom of Psychopaths
This is an interesting book. It is written by an academic (25% of the book is notes); the author Kevin Dutton, is a professor of Experimental Psychology at Oxford. He does approach the topic with academic rigours and makes a number of pragmatic and very interesting observations. However he admits also that the desire to understand his father, an East End market trader was another (Freudian?) reason for writing the book. The book begins with a Aristotelian observation ‘There was never a genius.....
Read MoreEmotional Intelligence Did Myers-Briggs Destroy Arthur Andersen?
Last week I ran a workshop on Practical Emotional Intelligence at the Human Resources Summitt 2011. Around 80 people attended. In an attempt to stir discussion I put forward the hypothesis that Arthur Andersen, a business that that had revenues of $9+ billion and employed 85,000 people in 2001 was transformed into 16-person organisation one year later because of its embrace of Myers-Briggs. To my amazement no-one argued with me. I decided that I would research this hypothesis in more detail. .....
Read MoreThe Emotional Intelligence of Don Draper
The fifth series of Mad Men is now being shown. I must confess that in the past six months I have become a Mad Men addict. I had actually missed seeing the first four series as they were televised but on an international plane trip I watched several past episodes and became hooked. I set myself the goal of watching all the episodes, hired out the DVDs and I am nearly at the end of series four. While the series goes through the standard life cycle themes of hatching, matching and dispatching it .....
Read MoreChris Golis - Author
"Put in a sales perspective, I loved your presentation! I got a lot from what you talked about and I will read your book."
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.
Christi Spring CEO Institute. - web www.ceo.com.au.