Primal Leadership

Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence

By: Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, Annie McKee

Narrated by: Arthur Morey

Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins

Publisher's summary

Daniel Goleman's international best seller Emotional Intelligence forever changed our concept of "being smart," showing how emotional intelligence (EI) - how we handle ourselves and our relationships - can determine life success more than IQ. Then, Working with Emotional Intelligence revealed how stellar career performance also depends on EI.

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.

Drawing from decades of analysis, the authors show that resonant leaders excel not just through skill and smarts but also by connecting with others, using EI competencies such as empathy and self-awareness. And they employ up to six leadership styles - from visionary to coach to pacesetter - fluidly interchanging them as the situation demands. The program no leader in any walk of life can afford to miss, this unforgettable work transforms the art of leadership into the science of results.

©2002 Daniel Goleman (P)2002 Audio Renaissance, a Division of Holtzbrinck Publishers LLC

life changing

great book! packed full of data to back up some eye opening claims! definitely going to be the first of many reads for me!

Awesome book

It takes you into EI in a healthy way, I invite you to explore yourself and your leadership style.

Great book! Highly recommend!

This was one of the best books I have listened to or read in a very long time. Kept my interest throughout the entire book! Great information that I will take with me and try to apply to and in my life.

Hi

Took me a while to read but it was good info. The book was good

Great content

Awesome if you're trying to expand your leadership. Or just be a better human being. Read well but it kind of reads like a research paper. The content is outstanding however.

Great approach

The book presents a great approach on leadership issues from the perspective of emotional intelligence. It also focuses greatly on the outcome of empathic leadership and the effects on a team as well as on outcomes of the detachment of leaders from their teams.

a fantastic new perspective

I loved this book. This taught me why it's so important to believe in my company, management and my own team. It also reafirmed my belief that the language you use and the way you use it genuinely affects the people around you. I have a lot more to learn from this book and I will most likely read it several more times and buy a physical copy.

I now understand what my gut has been telling me.

I have been in management for 24 years. This book explains everything I have seen of what doesnt work and what does work when leading a team, in my case, 5-7 people.

The Best Leadership book I ever read

As awesome as other Goleman’s books. Step by step guide to understand the leadership styles and become a leader you wish you had, with or without any official title. Science-based and Free of those personal views and judgmental military stories.
Highly recommended.

Great and informative!

This book was filled with so much information. It is so helpful to better understand the difficulties out there in the present job market. There are so many managers lacking leadership skills and it can become very frustrating for the average worker.