The authors define EQ as “your ability to recognize and understand emotions in others, and your ability to use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships.” While it is true that some people are naturally more emotionally intelligent than others, a high EQ can be developed even if you aren’t born with it.” “EQ, on the other hand, is a flexible skill that can be learned.
Intelligence is your ability to learn, and it’s the same at age 15 as it is at age 50.” You don’t get smarter by learning new facts or information. Think a Venn diagram of IQ, EQ, and Personality. (More on my test results below!)ĮQ is part of understanding the “whole person,” say the authors. Their findings: “EQ scores rise as executives climb the ladder, peaking at the manager level, falling off thereafter, and bottoming out, alarmingly, at the CEO level.”Įmotional Intelligence 2.0 is a fascinating read-and each book includes (like StrengthsFinder 2.0), a passcode for one person to take the Emotional Intelligence Appraisal® test. Their Harvard Business Review article, “ Heartless Bosses,” notes: “For each respondent, we measured self-awareness, social-awareness, self-management, and relationship-management skills to yield a cumulative EQ (or “emotional intelligence quotient”) score on a 100-point scale.” This will get your attention: “CEOs, on average, have the lowest EQ scores in the workplace.”Authors Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves add, “Considering the mountain of literature about EQ, you’d think corporate executives would be pretty smart about it.”īy 2009, the authors had already measured EQ in half a million senior executives. Taking the online emotional intelligence test would also have been a good idea years ago! Why now? It keeps popping up on The Wall Street Journal’s business best-seller list (#7 last Saturday). But does it count that the book has been on my “to-read-and-review” shelf since 2012? And I do agree-I should have read the book in 2012, not five months ago. Really, Pearson? You celebrated 50 years of marriage in 2019 and-just now-you decide to read Emotional Intelligence 2.0? Really?
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Buy the book and take the EQ test! And this reminder: click here to download free resources from the 20 management buckets (core competencies) and check out this website for recent book reviews, including the HBR article, “ Why Your Meetings Stink-and What to Do About It.” 420 of Your Weekly Staff Meeting highlights a WSJ bestseller that says you can improve your emotional intelligence.