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Optimal
Optimal
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 Chase, and New York City Mayor Eric Adams have placed it at the heart of what they do.
Daniel Goleman's bestselling book Emotional Intelligence was the first to coin this idea and bring it to a mass audience. Now, more than a quarter of a century after it was first published, he and Rutgers professor of psychology Cary Cherniss take a fresh look at how emotional intelligence has evolved over the past few decades, reframing its importance in this definitive book.
Beginning with a dissection of what makes for individual success, Goleman and Cherniss then set out how high performance can be cultivated at every level, scaling up the concept to top team performance and outstanding organisations. Building on attributes such as self-awareness, a sense of meaning and emotional balance, high concentration, and 'flow' states, they demonstrate that it is in our optimal moments that our mental clarity shines.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780241609040
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 12 June 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 195g
Pages: 272
About the Author
Daniel Goleman (Author) Daniel Goleman, PhD, author of five New York Times bestsellers, is best known for his paradigm-shifting book Emotional Intelligence, a global bestseller, and has a long-standing interest in meditation dating back to his two years in India as a graduate student at Harvard. His books have been translated into more than forty languages. Cary Cherniss (Author) Cary Cherniss is Professor of Applied Psychology and Director of the Organizational Psychology program at Rutgers University. Cherniss specializes in the areas of emotional intelligence, work stress, leadership development, and planned organizational change
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