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The Art of Leading Yourself: Tap the Power of Your Emotional Intelligence

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When I read the book, I realized immediately why The Art of Leading Yourself was a bestseller in Norway. It really differentiated itself from a lot of American self-help books, because it focuses on developing your strong points, instead of badgering you about all of your incompetencies. The book was positive and uplifting, and the writing style was simple yet informative. I would recommend this book to anyone really, and in particular, those people interested in becoming better leaders - both at work and in their personal lives. This whole concept of Emotional Intelligence is fascinating, and Randi Noyes is really on the cutting edge of taking it out of academic thinking and bringing it to the realities of people's lives.

Finally - an author has created a new paradigm of success and has produced a book that gets right to the heart of modern pursuits. One of the world's leading experts on emotional intelligence, Randi B. Noyes, argues that in today's world, emotions matter. In fact, they can matter twice as much as conventional intelligence and expertise put together in terms of accounting for business success.

"The Art of Leading Yourself" provides a balanced and practical approach to emotional intelligence. It indicates that proper understanding and use of emotions can be critical to helping us be more effective workers and better communicators. Comprehensive, convincing, and invaluable this engaging book is a 'must read' for anyone desiring to make a difference.

Whether in your personal life or professional life, The Art of Leading Yourself gives you the tools and life changing information to help you accomplish what you want in life. It also shows you how to remove obstacles, real or imagined, and shows you what you have to do to create the results you want. This book is different than 99% of the success and self help books that are out there. The ideas and examples it gives are
simple, sometimes surprisingly so, but at the same time they can

revolutionize your thinking. This book goes beyond the typical
motivational, slap-on-the back, "you can do it" book. It offers
not hype, but hope based on solid advice and suggestions.
I recommend it as a must read!
Judy Peterson, author, "Follow Your Heart and Discover God's Dream for You", speaker, and businesswoman.

If there is ONE book I would like to recommend to my family, friends and employees it is this book:"The Art of Leading Yourself. Tap the Power of Your Emotional Intelligence." The author and President of Leadership International has put it all together:
Accessing our Emotional Intelligence is made easy to understand. How a person can influence their life and create results becomes remarkably clear,- straight to the point and grounded. Fundamental principals are made SO UNDERSTANDABLE THAT THEY STICK WITH YOU in a way I have never seen before. This is a Leadership book for ourselves first of all and for the people we lead: It is for every person we wish a meaningful and successful life!
This book shows us how we can take advantage of our emotions for motivation, connection and influence.
In addition it is warm and personable. Enjoy!

This is a beautiful and brilliant book. Randi presents in an immediately accessible style the powerful lessons we can learn from tapping into our emotions and using them intelligently. The book is peppered with examples from her many clients, illustrating the successful transformations that we can achieve in our work and lives when we make this deep lying shift. The clarity of style in which the book is written belies the force of its message. Randi cautions that the choice to understand what our emotions are telling us can lead us to places of personal pain. Yet to ignore our emotions will perpetuate the issues and challenges that are currently causing us problems. The end of the book contains some useful guiding exercises and I found the exercise in the text on page 30 to be deeply moving for me personally. Randi exposes her own journey and how she has overcome the difficulties that she has faced. It takes courage to express such vulnerability to an unknown readership and this, perhaps, is the underlying acknowledgement of tapping ones own emotional intelligence - the courage to confront our own vulnerability. This is a book from the heart and is one that you will read again and again.

This book is a conversational journey with extensive, vivid images. Noyes calls on extensive consulting and coaching to take the basic principles of self-awareness and self-management and personalize them. The imagery is memorable. The people and examples given make the material applicable and personal. Throughout, the work is easy to read and on point. It's strength is in experience rather than abstract principle. This serves as a great self-help work. The final sections provide easy to use exercises to make materials real, personal and practical. Fun and informative, this work serves to practically make life more fulfilling.

Randi Noyes' book is excellent. It enabled me to evaluate my emotional self and the way I react to life, family, and work. The message is thought provoking and powerful. It challenged me to make life changing decisions in family relations and work. I highly recommend this book to everyone that is searching for a more fulfilled and happy life.

Randi B. Noyes has written a beautiful book that will be your loving guide and companion if you are serious about leading yourself from the inside out. For those who are yet to define themselves as the "uncontested boss off their own life", the book will encourage a bigger and brighter dream of what their life can be.

This book is a practical and down to earth approach to navigating in your own life. Its focus on emotional intelligence teaches that if you want to live a whole life, you will have to use your whole self in your day to day living. Filled with living examples, the book is easy to read and enjoyable. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to know themselves better.

"I am the uncontested boss of myself and can never be laid off". We go through much of life acting according to the expectations others have of us. This book is about daring to discover the stuff we are made of and writing our own script for a meaningful life.

Randi Noyes has written a thoughtful, concise book for those of usus who want to take the steps to move our lives in a healthier, more productive direction. Whether we be managers, artists, parents, lovers, young adults or strugglers in mid-life, this book can help us focus on what we must do to achieve our dreams. It is a quick read. The message is to the point. The Art of Leading Yourself is the best writing I've seen in its genre.

Randi Noyes takes you on a path to transforming you into becoming more of yourself. Highly recommended to anyone who is searching for their life work or destiny, or simply wanting guidance. Randi helps you draw your own road map and sends you off to where you need and want to be. Expect to be transformed to a better human by the time you have finished the book. You will not regret having invested in her book, it's a promise!