Now, Goleman teams with renowned EI researchers Richard Boyatzis and
Annie McKee to explore the role of emotional intelligence in
leadership. Unveiling neuroscientific links between organizational
success or failure and "primal leadership," the authors argue that a
leader's emotions are contagious. If a leader resonates energy and
enthusiasm, an organization thrives; if a leader spreads negativity and
dissonance, it flounders. This breakthrough concept charges leaders
with driving emotions in the right direction to have a positive impact
on earnings or strategy.
Drawing from decades of analysis within world-class organizations, the
authors show that resonant leaders-whether CEOs or managers, coaches or
politicians-excel not just through skill and smarts, but by connecting
with others using EI competencies like empathy and self-awareness. And
they employ up to six leadership styles-from visionary to coaching to
pacesetting-fluidly interchanging them as the situation demands.
The book no leader in any walk of life can afford to miss, this
unforgettable work transforms the art of leadership into the science of
results.
Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence
By Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee
For every suicide bomber on September 11th or executive at
Enron, there are hundreds of leaders like Rudi Guiliani, Oprah Winfrey,
Niall Fitzgerald, Keki Dadiseth, and Antony Burgmans of Unilever,
Monica Sharma of the United Nations, James Staley of Roadway, and John
Lauer of Oglebay Norton. They help us elevate the human spirit and make
society, our organizations, our families, and lives better. They do it
by using their emotional intelligence to create an atmosphere in which
people want to do and be their best.
We wrote this book to help reverse the alarming trend of only seeing
the examples of the lack of emotional intelligence and the havoc it
imposes in our lives and society that bombard us daily. Based on
decades of research and consulting to executives and organizations, we
sought to explain the links between outstanding leaders and their
emotional intelligence.
There are three major points in this book. First, great leaders
move us. They do it by creating a resonance with our emotions and a
shared desire to be a part of something effective and meaningful. They
are emotionally intelligent, and their emotional intelligence is driven
by neural circuits and emerges in clearly observable actions. It is
through leadership styles based on emotional intelligent acts that
enable them to establish this resonance with others. Second, people can
develop these competencies. Based on a series of longitudinal studies,
the process by which adults can significantly improve their emotional
intelligence is described with many examples. These are exciting
results. People have not only been shown to sustain these improvement
seven years later, but also continue to grow and develop years after
beginning the process. Third, leaders at all levels in organizations
can create resonant teams and cultures that breed emotional
intelligence and the best in others.
We hope you find the story as exciting as it has been for us in
working with others and making these discoveries. Being a part of the
creative and energizing process of people becoming leaders is a source
of hope. And we all need more of that these days.
From the Author
By, Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee
We started to write a book about leadership, resonance and emotional
intelligence. We ended up living it for the past two years with each
other. The three of us have been studying emotional intelligence
competencies and consulting with executives for decades on how to excel
as leaders. As the ideas and experiences were brought together, we
found an excitement that was contagious. It was fun. And it was
contagious to others around us.
That is the point of the book.
Great leaders move us by creating a resonance with others. Mayor
Guiliani did not win widespread acclaim because he broadcast the
financial impact of the September 11th disaster. He spoke to our hearts
and our need to believe in each other and he struck a resonant chord in
many all over the world. Each person's emotional intelligence feeds
this resonance like banging on a drum louder and louder and setting off
vibrations in other drums nearby. In the book we trace the neural
circuitry that drives the actions known as emotional intelligence and
their link to outstanding performance in many types of organizations.
Just
as you begin to wonder if this is genetically determined, we offer
evidence on years of longitudinal studies showing that people can
develop these competencies. The process of improving one's emotional
intelligence is described with stories of people who have done it-
people who have sustained the improvements for seven years following
beginning the process. Leaders can use these steps and their own
emotional intelligence to create this resonance in teams and
organizational cultures. The effect is that others get excited and do
things they had not thought possible previously.
We hope you
can join us in this excitement. We hope that the ideas and examples in
the book create a resonance in you, the reader. Then you can lead
others in discovering how people can use their collective talent to
build effective and meaningful teams, organizations, and families.
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