Working with Emotional Intelligence [antikvár]

Acknowledgments The thinking that led to this book has many roots. One of the most important was an ongoing series of talks with my wife. Tara Bennett-Goleman, triggered by sitting through many frustrating business meetings together, particularly of boards of directors we sat on. I was often aware that, for some reason, things just were not working. Tara was able to tune in to the emotional currents beneath the surface of those meetings and identify the ones that diverted the group's focus and energy, keeping us from getting our business done. Tara and I began working together on what eventually became the book Emotional Intelligence. Her thinking and work are bearing ftaiit in a book of her own, now in progress. She has been with me every step of the way on this intellectual journey. Another main taproot of the thinking reflected here is my late friend David C. McClelland, formerly my professor at Harvard University. David's visionary sense of the nature of competence and his keen quest for truth have long been an inspiration for me, and a large portion of the evidence on which I build my case traces back to David's research. I was saddened to leam of David's death as I was finishing this book. I was helped by many friends at the Boston office of Hay/McBer (the company David founded with David Berlew, now my business advisor): James Burrus, president; Mary Fontaine, vice president and general manager; Ruth Jacobs, senior consultant; and Jason Goldner and Wei Chen, researchers. Richard Boyatzis, associate dean for executive education at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University, a past president at Hay/McBer, a colleague of David McClelland, and a good friend since our graduate