Working with Presence

A Leading with Emotional Intelligence Conversation with Peter Senge

By: Daniel Goleman Ph.D. Ph.D., Peter Senge

Narrated by: Peter Senge, Daniel Goleman Ph.D. Ph.D.

In the fourth installment of this powerful audiobook series Working with Presence, Daniel Goleman and Peter Senge discuss how emotional intelligence is an integral part of the "learning organization," and what organizations need to do to continue to grow, learn and succeed.

The ideas expressed in Goleman's Emotional Intelligence decades ago have taken on a life of their own. They spurred a movement, with enthusiastic adherents in the business world, in medicine and healthcare, at home, in the field of education and the world at large. Several million people, including business managers, human resource departments, healthcare workers, teachers, parents and students, have applied the ideas and principles expressed in Emotional Intelligence to their fields with tangible and quantifiable results. Leading with Emotional Intelligence Conversations is an ongoing dialogue series that begins with luminaries in the field of business. In the world of business we have only scratched the surface of how principles of emotional intelligence can increase profitability and efficiency in the workplace.

Peter Senge, is the founder of the Center for Organizational Learning at MIT's Sloan School of Management, as well as the author of The Fifth Discipline—a pioneering work that presents Senge's idea of the "learning organization"—management principals based on systems thinking.

©2007 More Than Sound LLC; (P)2007 Audio Renaissance, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishers LLC

Critic reviews

“Goleman's groundbreaking work on emotional intelligence is the basis for the audio's message: Leaders do best when they stay emotionally connected to the realities of their business and to their team's personal goals and needs.” —<i>AudioFile on Primal Leadership</i>

Great insight; unstructured.

Still relevant after nearly a decade. Valuable insights from leading leadership experts. It's a wandering conversation/interview, not a structured class. I find the best way to approach this content is to 1) commit to listen to it at least twice and 2) listen for the nuggets most useful to you.

Don't bother. Self indulgent chatter.

Would you try another book from Daniel Goleman and Peter Senge and/or Peter Senge and Daniel Goleman ?

I like these guys but this doesn't do them any favors. Should be a free product on one of their websites.

Has Working with Presence turned you off from other books in this genre?

no

How did the narrator detract from the book?

no narator, interview style.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Working with Presence?

none, it's about 3 hours short of substantial content on the subject.

Disappointed

I did not find much value as I was expecting to learn more about how to work with presence and there wasn't much on it.