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What Makes a Leader?: A Leading With Emotional Intelligence Conversation with Jack and Suzy Welch (Conversation Series)

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Only two words can best describe this material: Waffle and balderdash. This is putting it mildly. It so bad I just can't find the words for it. These greedy "humans" are simply cashing in on the trendy topic of emotional intelligence (EQ).

Two supposedly well-known American leadership "experts" discuss emotional intelligence as being an essential component to leadership. Their prime criterion for measurement is the accumulation of wealth in excess beyond need, as reflected in the success of "leaders" in big successful companies. Basically saying that those who are not successful at getting rich are basically emotionally unsuccessful. Good heavens, why can't anyone recognise that without charity and goodwill the human race would have been destitute and the planet doomed long before now? Are charity and goodwill signs of emotional "unintelligence"? Giving away millions of dollars, sterling, or whatever, after hording it is not necessarily being emotionally intelligent; it is trying to appease one's conscience and making oneself feel good.

I will be feeling very guilty selling this CD onto someone else. Best look elsewhere for better material. Goleman has tarnished his reputation by consorting with the "devil and his greed".

Great book! I admired it! The book is recommended to all leaders and top managers