Daniel Goleman

Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman explores the critical role of emotions in our lives, revealing that emotional intelligence - the ability to understand and manage emotions effectively - is a key factor in personal and professional success. Through a blend of psychological research and practical advice, Goleman challenges the traditional view that IQ is the sole predictor of achievement and...

More than twenty-five years on from the huge bestseller Emotional Intelligence, this book reframes the concept's importance for a new era, explaining how to create high-performing individuals, teams, and organisations. Emotional intelligence is now embedded in our public discourse—an idea so pervasive and important in our work, culture, politics, and society that leaders such as Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan...

Do you want to be more successful at work? Do you want to improve your chances of promotion? Do you want to get on better with your colleagues? Daniel Goleman draws on unparalleled access to business leaders around the world and the thorough research that is his trademark. He demonstrates that emotional intelligence at work matters twice as much as...

Develop the mindset and presence to successfully manage others for the first time. If you read nothing else on becoming a new manager, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you transition from being an outstanding individual contributor to a great manager of others. This book...

The importance of achieving deep focus goes beyond your own productivity. Deep focus allows you to lead others successfully, harness your emotions, and find greater workplace fulfilment. Yet the forces that challenge sustained focus range from dinging phones to office politics to life's everyday worries. Focus explains how to strengthen your ability to focus, manage your team's attention, and break...

Bestselling author Daniel Goleman returns with a groundbreaking look at the secret to high performance and fulfilment: attention. 'A highly readable manifesto for turning our smartphones off once in a while' Financial Times For more than two decades, psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman has been scouting the leading edge of the human sciences for what’s new, surprising, and important. In...

According to research by Daniel Goleman, emotional intelligence has proved to be twice as important as other competencies in determining outstanding leadership. It's now one of the crucial criteria in hiring and promotion processes, performance evaluations, and professional development courses. And it's not innate—it's a set of skills that all of us can learn and improve upon. With this double...

Bestselling author Daniel Goleman first brought the concept of emotional intelligence (EI) to the forefront of business through his articles in Harvard Business Review, establishing EI as an indispensable trait for leaders. The Emotionally Intelligent Leader brings together three of Goleman's bestselling HBR articles, each showing the direct ties between emotional intelligence and measurable business results. In What Makes a...

Self-Awareness (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series) is the bedrock of emotional intelligence. It enables you to see your talents, shortcomings, and potential. But you won't be able to achieve self-awareness through personality tests or quarterly feedback alone. This book will teach you how to understand your thoughts and emotions, how to persuade colleagues to share what they really think of you,...

The benefits of mindfulness include better performance, heightened creativity, deeper self-awareness, and increased charisma—not to mention greater peace of mind. This book gives you practical steps for building a sense of presence into your daily work routine. It also explains the science behind mindfulness and why it works, and provides clear-eyed warnings about the pitfalls of the fad. This volume...

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strengthening Your Soft Skills by Richard Boyatzis, Amy Gallo, Amy Jen Su, Harvard Business Review, and Daniel Goleman will help you strengthen your soft skills and reach your leadership potential. If you read nothing else on developing your interpersonal skills, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected...

Work more productively with individuals and groups inside and outside your organisation. In these ten essential Harvard Business Review articles, you'll find the advice you need to build new relationships and leverage existing ones, collaborate across functions and departments, get others to play nicely, and determine when it makes sense to go it alone. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Collaboration...

Empathy is credited as a factor in both improved relationships and even better product development. But while it's easy to say "just put yourself in someone else's shoes," the reality is that understanding the motivations and emotions of others is an elusive capability. This book helps you understand what empathy is, why it's important, how to surmount the hurdles that...

Why We Meditate is a practical guide to meditation based on scientific research and ancient Buddhist practices. In this modern digital age, many of us feel overwhelmed, panicked, and exhausted. The practice of meditation is an antidote to that frenzied feeling. Using scientific research to explain the benefits of ancient practices, this book provides readers with an empirically sound and...

A major book from the author of the bestselling Emotional Intelligence, Social Intelligence does for relationships what Emotional Intelligence did for emotions—brings readers a radically different way of thinking about themselves and their world. Emotional Intelligence was an international phenomenon, appearing on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year and selling more than 5 million copies worldwide....

The most important ideas on management all in one place We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles on topics such as emotional intelligence, communication, change, leadership, strategy, managing people, and managing yourself and selected the most important ones to help you maximise your own and your organisation's performance. HBR's 10 Must Reads Ultimate Boxed Set includes 14 bestselling...

You want the most important ideas on management all in one place. Now you can have them in a set of HBR's 10 Must Reads. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles on strategy, change leadership, managing people, and managing yourself and selected the most important ones to help you maximise your performance. This six-title collection includes only...

Set ambitious goals and achieve them. If you read nothing else on high performance, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you build on your strengths, assemble a network that supports your development, and achieve extraordinary results. This book will inspire you to: Activate your leadership mindset Cultivate...

Develop the most important skill for leadership success. If you read nothing else on emotional intelligence, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you build the people skills you need to thrive, strengthen your resilience and self-awareness, and adapt your leadership style for any situation. This book will...

Develop the skills and mindset to successfully manage others for the first time.If you read nothing else for new managers, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you get up to speed quickly, assess your team's strengths and weaknesses, and lead them to perform at their best.This book...

How do some people bounce back with strength from daily setbacks, professional crises, or even intense personal trauma? Resilience (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series) reveals the key traits of those who emerge stronger from challenges, helps you train your brain to withstand the stresses of daily life, and presents an approach to an effective career reboot. This volume includes the work...

A fascinating and practical guide from two New York Times bestselling authors, backed by state-of-the-art scientific research. Drawing on cutting-edge research, friends and Harvard collaborators Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson expertly reveal what we can learn from a one-of-a-kind data pool that includes world-class meditators. They share for the first time remarkable findings that show how meditation—without drugs or high...

HBR's 10 Must Reads on High Performance is a curated collection of 10 HBR magazine articles focused on helping you perform at your highest level and achieve remarkable results. We've read everything HBR has ever published on high performance so you don't have to. This collection curates the best and most influential HBR articles on the topic. The articles cover...

Bring out their best. If you read nothing else on managing people, read this book. We've chosen a new selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles that will help you earn your people's trust, build successful teams, and coach employees to help them reach their potential. This book will inspire you to: Balance the competing priorities of managing...

Help your team excel. Go from being a good practitioner to being an extraordinary leader of healthcare professionals. If you read nothing else on leadership, read these articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones for healthcare leaders to help you and your team excel, maximise performance, and live into your mission....

A leader's singular job is to get results. But even with all the leadership training programs and expert advice available, effective leadership still eludes many people and organisations. One reason, says Daniel Goleman, is that such experts offer advice based on inference, experience, and instinct, not on quantitative data. Now, drawing on research of more than 3,000 executives, Goleman explores...

In his defining work on emotional intelligence, Dan Goleman has found that it is twice as important as other competencies in determining outstanding leadership. If you read nothing else on emotional intelligence, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you monitor and manage...

How to be human at work. HBR's Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to...

The classic Harvard Business Review articles every manager and aspiring leader should read—and share with their teams—from such bestselling Harvard Business Review authors as Peter Drucker, Clayton Christensen, John Kotter, Daniel Goleman, Jim Collins, Gary Hamel, W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne, and many more. Each compact book represents the most important ideas on management, leadership, and life. Build your professional...

Everyone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, happiness, or virtue, but until Emotional Intelligence, we could only guess why. Daniel Goleman's brilliant report from the frontiers of psychology and neuroscience offers startling new insight into our "two minds" - the rational and the emotional - and how they together shape our destiny. Through vivid examples, Goleman delineates...

When asked to define the ideal leader, many would emphasise traits such as intelligence, toughness, determination, and vision—the qualities traditionally associated with leadership. Often left off the list are softer, more personal qualities, but they are also essential. Although a certain degree of analytical and technical skill is a minimum requirement for success, studies indicate that emotional intelligence may be...

As business reinvents itself at broadband speed, what makes leaders effective has inevitably been transformed. Old assumptions and old modes no longer hold; a new style of leadership that works has emerged amidst the chaos of change. This new leader excels in the art of relationship, the singular expertise which the changing business climate renders indispensable. Excellence is being defined...

How to be human at work. HBR's Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to...

Executive leadership is a team sport. As part of an executive team, you wear many hats. Not only are you responsible for working with other senior leaders to establish strategic goals and ensure their execution, you're also making tough decisions, shaping organisational culture, and communicating regularly with employees. If you read nothing else on working effectively as an executive team...

Managing people is fraught with challenges—even if you're a seasoned manager. Here's how to handle them. If you read nothing else on managing people, read these 10 articles. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you maximise your employees' performance. HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People will inspire you...

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself brings together a collection of the most essential articles to guide every ambitious manager on self-management. This volume includes advice from top thinkers such as Clayton M. Christensen, Daniel Goleman, and Peter F. Drucker. This series focuses on the core topics that every ambitious manager needs to explore: leadership, strategy, change, managing people,...

Optimal by bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence Daniel Goleman and Cary Cherniss, reveals practical methods for applying the principles of emotional intelligence (EI) to more easily enter an optimal state of high performance and satisfaction. The book offers a roadmap to being at your best, every day. There are moments when we achieve peak performance—an athlete plays a perfect game;...

Go from being a good manager to an extraordinary leader. If you read nothing else on leadership, read these 10 articles (featuring "What Makes an Effective Executive," by Peter F. Drucker). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles on leadership and selected the most important ones to help you maximise your own and your organisation's performance. HBR's 10...

Optimal, by the bestselling author of Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman, and Cary Cherniss, reveals practical methods for applying the principles of emotional intelligence (EI) to more readily enter an optimal state of high performance and satisfaction. The book offers a roadmap to being at your best every day. There are moments when we achieve peak performance—an athlete plays a perfect...

Stay on top of your leadership game. More of the ideas you want, from the authors you trust. We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you maximise your own and your organisation's performance. With insights from leading experts, HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership, Vol. 2 will inspire you to:...