Amazon.com
Business leaders who maintain that emotions are best kept out of the work environment do so at their organization's peril. Bestselling author Daniel Goleman's theories on emotional intelligence (EI) have radically altered common understanding of what "being smart" entails, and in Primal Leadership, he and his coauthors present the case for cultivating emotionally intelligent leaders. Since the actions of the leader apparently account for up to 70 percent of employees' perception of the climate of their organization, Goleman and his team emphasize the importance of developing what they term "resonant leadership." Focusing on the four domains of emotional intelligence--self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management--they explore what contributes to and detracts from resonant leadership, and how the development of these four EI competencies spawns different leadership styles. The best leaders maintain a style repertoire, switching easily between "visionary," "coaching," "affiliative," and "democratic," and making rare use of less effective "pace-setting" and "commanding" styles. The authors' discussion of these methods is informed by research on the workplace climates engendered by the leadership styles of more than 3,870 executives. Indeed, the experiences of leaders in a wide range of work environments lend real-life examples to much of the advice Goleman et al. offer, from developing the motivation to change and creating an improvement plan based on learning rather than performance outcomes, to experimenting with new behaviors and nurturing supportive relationships that encourage change and growth. The book's final section takes the personal process of developing resonant leadership and applies it to the entire organizational culture. --S. Ketchum
Book Description
National Bestseller Available in Paperback
"Just as Goleman's first book redefined intelligence, his new treatise…reassesses what makes a great leader."
-Time magazine
"Daniel Goleman has done it again! …a fascinating account of how emotions are at the heart of effective leadership. This book is a gem."
--David Gergen, Director, Center for Public Leadership, John F. Kennedy School, Harvard University
Drawing from decades of research within world-class organizations, the authors show that great leaders-whether CEOs or managers, coaches or politicians-excel not just through skill and smarts, but by connecting with others using Emotional Intelligence competencies like empathy and self-awareness. The best leaders, they show, have "resonance"-a powerful ability to drive emotions in a positive direction to get results-and can fluidly interchange among a variety of leadership styles as the situation demands. Groundbreaking and timely, this book reveals the new requirements of successful leadership.
Customer Reviews:
Emotional Intelligence for Relational Leadership.......2007-09-20
If you smile at me, I smile back; you frown and I look down - emotions are not a closed-loop system, but an open-loop system that helps us learn or causes us to shutdown. Transference of positive emotions (resonance) drives organizations to higher performance, conflicting emotions drive dissonance and limit performance according to authors Goleman, Boyatzis, and McKee. Thus, leadership is far more relational than transactional and good leaders are competent in all four domains of Emotional Intelligence - self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management. The best leaders are also adept at applying a wide repertoire of supportive leadership styles - Visionary, Coaching, Affiliative, or Pacesetting to drive resonance, but also Pacesetting and even Commanding when the circumstances dictate.
It all sounds like so much common sense now; nearly 10 years after Goleman first burst on the scene with his international bestseller "Emotional Intelligence". Still, it is sometimes useful to remind ourselves that management is a relational process and that the necessary skills can be individually learned and subsequently developed within a team and/or organization - as the second half of this book goes on to say. If you have the time to step back and contemplate how relational interactions might be better managed within your organization, this book might give you a few things to think about. Dennis DeWilde, Author of "The Performance Connection"
Very Insightful and Educational.......2007-06-24
I absolutely loved the information in this book. It hits on many points that you dont get in general business classes. It explains leadership styles, review processes, self development, and just an overall good book in general on how to treat and develope people under you effectively. It is amazing how many people run corporations, and dont know or understand the power of the information in this book. I purchased copies to develope my 2 levels of supervisors below me. Highly Recomended!
Team 2: Primal Leadership- Book Review- UWM/MBA Students (Edina, Keith, Dianne, Vicki).......2007-05-04
We thought the book has great ideas to share on the leadership theory. It is written clearly and is easy to read. The authors, who are clearly well educated in the field of Emotional Intelligence and leadership, offer a well written book on: Emotional Intelligence; leadership styles; and offer a model for self directed learning (with Richard Boyatzi's Theory of Self Directed learning).
The book has three main parts.
In the first part of the book, The Power of Emotional Intelligence, the authors provide a great introduction to what makes leaders great. The authors show that resonant leaders - whether CEO's, managers, politicians or coaches - excel not just through skill and smarts, but by connecting with others using the EI competencies. They make scientific connections to neuro-anatomy that support the idea that emotions do in fact drive human behavior. The concepts of resonance, dissonance, laughter and moods are laid as the groundwork for understanding primal leadership and emotional intelligence. Then, they outline the four foundations, or domains, of emotional intelligence and their associated competencies:
* Self-Awareness:
- Emotional self-awareness
- Accurate self-assessment
- Self-confidence
* Self-Management:
- Emotional self-control
- Transparency
- Adaptability
- Achievement
- Initiative
- Optimism
* Social awareness:
- Empathy
- Organizational awareness
- Service
* Relationship management:
- Inspirational Leadership
- Influence
- Developing others
- Change catalyst
- Conflict management
- Building bonds
- Teamwork and collaboration
An important piece of applying EI is developing a flexible leadership style that is designed to draw in and motivate employees via a repertoire of leadership styles that include:
* Resonant Leadership Styles:
- Visionary
- Coaching
- Affiliative
- Democratic
* Dissonant Leadership Styles (limited use):
- Pace-setting
- Commanding
The second part, Making Leaders, is about the process of making emotionally intelligent leaders. The authors argue the case of "CEO disease" which is the information vacuum around a leader created when people withhold important (usually unpleasant) information. This includes getting too little useful performance feedback. The authors argue that when it comes to building leadership skills that last, motivation and how a person feels about learning matters immensely. People learn what they want to learn. If it is forced, it will soon be forgotten. Consequently they offer the five stages of self "discoveries" which are essentially a self-directed self-evaluation process that help make changes more long-standing. The author brings hope by explaining that true leaders are made, not born. They explain that resonant leadership is achievable through experimenting and practicing new behaviors.
The third part of the book, Building Emotionally Intelligent Organizations, attempts to apply emotional intelligence concepts on a macro level. It begins with the application to teams, then moves to the ideal organization, and closes discussing how to create sustainable change. There is general agreement that the third part of the book is the weakest. It teases readers who want to know more about how to be more effective on the team and organizational level, but does not provide the necessary how to steps. The particulars of how all of this is achieved within an organizational context are disappointingly vague as a systematic research model is not presented.
Criticisms of the book:
The first and second part of the book were found to be well liked by all of our team members. However, the third part of the book was found to be strong in the development of the theory, but weak in the application of it to real life. Further weaknesses of the book are listed below:
- The primary focus seems to be on identifying the components and the theory supporting primal leadership, however, it is lacking specific guidance on implementing the steps.
- Examples sometimes speak to success, however at times they do not identify specifically what the person did to achieve that success. More detail would provide better learning for the reader.
- Most of the research was secondary data.
- The book does not discuss competing theories.
- A single minded focus on building good relations may create the "Country Club" paradigm, good feelings but little output. (Allio)
We liked the book because:
The following lists the many strengths of the book, which outline why our team liked the book.
* It is relevant to the challenges of today's business by offering ways to improve business performance through improving leadership.
* It gives great examples of how positive and negative leaders may impact success of the organization.
* It provides a comprehensive introduction to the importance of EI skills in our every day business life.
* It stresses the realization of the importance to put people first before strategy.
* Nature vs. Nurture? The author brings a hope (even though not all leaders are born with all self-competencies) that through incorporation of different leadership techniques one can potentially become an effective and resonant leader.
* It inspires the reader to look inward and develop their own emotional intelligence.
* It's timing is relevant to the advance of modern leadership theory.
This book, overall, is recommended to others, specifically including our team peers, colleagues, leadership at work, leadership at volunteer organizations, family and friends. This book serves as a great introduction to the concept of emotional intelligence in everyday business life, while crossing over to life outside of the business world too.
Forget that we are all people at your own risk.......2007-04-03
In sales training you are taught to analyze emotions, to identify the type of personality your prospect has, and then taught how to best make a sales pitch to that personality type.
In MBA school you are instead taught (usually by the case study method) that numbers are the bottom line and any ideas you might have of people not being interchangeable parts is silly if not outright incorrect.
Let's say you need to hire a physicist. On the one hand you have this physicist with an MBA (yes they exist, I'm one) and he understands the bottom line, how to sell, how to plan. On the other hand you have Einstein who looks funny and forgets to put on his shoes when he walks to lunch. You'd better decide carefully what you need. Princeton University decided - they built the only covered walkway between building so Einstein didn't get his feet wet going between his office and the cafeteria.
Above all else, this book says that we are people. Ignore that we have emotions and you will lose.
Refreshing.......2007-03-25
I picked this book up on a whim, and I was very surprised how much it pertained to my life. I found this book to be very insightful and refreshing. The ideas and concepts put forth seem so simple and full of common sense, yet very few people seem to practice them. I think this is a must read for people who want the most out of life and their relationships.
Book Description
Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again! Virtually all testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events are included.look no further for study resources or reference material. Cram101 Textbook Outlines gives all of the outlines, highlights, notes, and practice-tests for your textbook. Only Cram101 is Textbook Specific. Cram101 is NOT the Textbook.
Customer Reviews:
The development of new leadership strengths.......2006-12-11
Overall, I thought this book was great!
Within the first few pages of the book; Priminal leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional intelligence; I made many connections to the text. With the statement "We rely on connections with other people for our own emotional stability" (p. 6)was powerful. The thought of the open-loop design of the limbic system made complete sense to me. The understanding that others change our physiology and our emotions was an awsome concept; although we often take it for granted. Being more conciously aware of this interchange between individuals while within a work environment is a great tool to utalize while implementing leadership skills.
It is clear thoughtout the book that improving emotional intelligence abilities makes leaders great, but it is a life long developing skill. The more one uses it the move one will continue to develop new leadership strengths on their own.
Book Description
* Practical advice on assessment methods including psychometric testing and structured interviews
Book Description
This book covers the assessment of people within the workplace. Written in jargon free language, it offers a guide to psychological assessment that can be used by managers in their everyday work. Each chapter will specifically cover an assessment practice and then explore the issues surrounding it, following this discussion with a case study. Ideas for test selection, guidance on assessment centre practice and illustrations of successfully worked exercises are also included.
Download Description
This book covers the assessment of people within the workplace. Written in jargon free language, it offers a guide to psychological assessment that can be used by managers in their everyday work. Each chapter will specifically cover an assessment practice and then explore the issues surrounding it, following this discussion with a case study. Ideas for test selection, guidance on assessment centre practice and illustrations of successfully worked exercises are also included.
Average customer rating:
|
Crisp: Personnel Testing: A Manager's Guide (Crisp Fifty-Minute Books)
John Jones
Manufacturer: Crisp Learning
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
 General
| Job Hunting & Careers
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Human Resources & Personnel Management
| Industries & Professions
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Management & Leadership
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
| Business Ethics
| Consolidation & Merger
| Decision-Making & Problem Solving
| Distribution & Warehouse Management
| Industrial
| Information Management
| Leadership
| Management
| Management Science
| Motivational
| Negotiating
| Operations Research
| Planning & Forecasting
| Pricing
| Production & Operations
| Project Management
| Quality Control
| Risk Assessment
| Statistics
| Strategy & Competition
| Systems & Planning
| Systems Analysis
| Teams
| Total Quality Management
| Training
Entrepreneurship
| Small Business & Entrepreneurship
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Manager's Guides to Computing
| Business & Culture
| Computers & Internet
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Computers & Internet
| Subjects
| Books
Look Inside Computer Books
| Trip
| Specialty Stores
| Books
All Titles
| Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007
| Stores
| Books
Business & Investing
| Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007
| Stores
| Books
Computers & Internet
| Qualifying Textbooks - Fall 2007
| Stores
| Books
ASIN: 156052233X |
Book Description
The modern practice of personnel testing originated with the need to accurately assess many job applicants quickly. This book illustrates the limitations of traditional interviewing practices and presents you with guidelines for effectively testing your job applicants to find the best candidate.
Average customer rating:
|
Psychological Testing: A Manager's Guide
Clive Fletcher ,
John Toplis , and
Vic Dulewicz
Manufacturer: Hyperion Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
General
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Human Resources & Personnel Management
| Industries & Professions
| Business & Investing
| Subjects
| Books
Testing & Measurement
| Psychology & Counseling
| Health, Mind & Body
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 0852924712 |
Average customer rating:
- A great book for a broad audience
|
Understanding Soil Change: Soil Sustainability over Millennia, Centuries, and Decades
Daniel D. Richter , and
Daniel Markewitz
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
History
| Subjects
| Books
| Africa
| Americas
| Ancient
| Arctic & Antarctica
| Asia
| Australia & Oceania
| Books on CD
| Books on Cassette
| Europe
| Gay & Lesbian
| Historical Study
| Large Print
| Middle East
| Military
| Military Science
| Russia
| United States
| World
General
| Biology
| Biological Sciences
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
Environmental Science
| Earth Sciences
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Geology
| Earth Sciences
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
Soil Science
| Agricultural Sciences
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Agricultural Sciences
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
Agronomy
| Agricultural Sciences
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
History of Technology
| Technology
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
Conservation
| Environment
| Outdoors & Nature
| Subjects
| Books
Ecology
| Environment
| Outdoors & Nature
| Subjects
| Books
Land
| Conservation
| Outdoors & Nature
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Agricultural Sciences
| Professional Science
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Biology
| Biological Sciences
| Professional Science
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Arts & Photography
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 0521771714 |
Book Description
Across the world, soils are managed with an intensity and at a geographic scale never before attempted, yet we know remarkably little about how and why managed soils change through time. Understanding Soil Change explores a legacy of soil change in southeastern North America, from the acidic soils of primary hardwood forests that covered the region until about 1800, through the marked transformations affected by long-cultivated cotton, to contemporary soils of rapidly growing and intensively managed pine forests. These well documented records significantly enrich the science of ecology and pedology, and provide valuable lessons for land management throughout the world. The book calls for the establishment of a global network of soil-ecosystem studies, like the invaluable Calhoun study on which the book is based, to provide further information on sustainable land management, vital as human demands on soil continue to increase.
Customer Reviews:
A great book for a broad audience.......2001-12-20
To most biologists soils are the ultimate "black box." We know that civilization could not develop without soils, and that soils are not only the foundations of all terrestrial ecosystems, but also the environment for >99% of ecosystem biodiversity. Soil scientists have gained tremendous views inside of this black box, and Richter and Markewitz provide a grand tour for scientists and students of other disciplines. This wonderful book explores how fertile, biologically rich soils develop over long periods of time (including the major chemical change of acidification), and how these ecological systems change dramatically as humans alter the balances between inputs, outputs, and cycles. About half of the story focuses on the development of deep, ancient soils (accounting for 40% of the soils in the humid subtropics and tropics), and the other half on the broader context of time, soil development, and land use by people. The authors develop these themes by exploring a deep, highly weathered soil at the Calhoun Forest in South Carolina. Changes in the soil are traced from the Devonian to the Holocene, through the heyday of cotton agriculture in the early 1800s to the Civil War, to abandonment and planting with pine trees in the mid 1900s. The changes in the soils, both long-term and short-term, derive from weathering of the soil by acids produced by plants and microbes (carbonic acid from respiration, and low molecular weight organic acids), and by the accumulation of organic matter (a byproduct of decomposition of plant tissues). Native forest ecosystems are remarkably productive on the Calhoun soil, despite the soil's advanced weathering stage. However, this productivity declines rapidly in managed forest plantations (or agriculture) unless fertilizers are used to augment the slow cycling of nutrients in the ancient soil. Soils are not only one of the most important parts of the Earth, but also dynamic, rapidly changing, living systems. The authors conclude with an important plea for international networks to monitor rates of change in soils. This book is a great window for biologists into the most important black box on Earth.
Book Description
This digital document is a journal article from Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, published by Elsevier in 2004. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Description:
Average customer rating:
|
Magnetic Fields of Celestial Bodies (Astrophysics and Space Science Library)
Ye Shi-hui
Manufacturer: Springer
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
Astronomy
| Astronomy
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
Astrophysics & Space Science
| Astronomy
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
Solar System
| Astronomy
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Electromagnetism
| Physics
| Science
| Subjects
| Books
Astronomy
| Astronomy
| Professional Science
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
Astrophysics & Space Science
| Astronomy
| Professional Science
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
Electromagnetism
| Physics
| Professional Science
| Professional & Technical
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 0792330285 |
Book Description
This book presents a comprehensive account of the magnetic fields of various celestial bodies -- the Sun, the Moon, planets, stars, the Milky Way, and galaxies as well as the interplanetary, interstellar and intergalactic media. The original Chinese edition was published in Beijing in 1978. The present English edition has been greatly enhanced, much improved and thoroughly rewritten. Compared with other books published in the same field, this monograph is mainly characterized by the completeness and freshness of its contents. It may be used as a reference and textbook for scientific researchers and students of astronomy, space physics, geophysics and other related sciences.
Books:
- Principles of Accounting: Working Papers for Exercises and Problems, Vol 1, Chapters 1-18 and Appendixes A-C
- Schaum's Outline of Macroeconomics
- Schaum's Outline of Principles of Accounting I (Schaum's)
- Schaum's Outline of Statistics and Econometrics
- So - You Want to Be an Innkeeper
- Statements on Management Accounting, No 4K: Cost Management for Warehousing (Statements on Management Accounting)
- Stop Whining-And Start Winning: Recharging People, Re-Igniting Passion, and Pumping Up Profits
- Supply Chain Management and Advanced Planning: Concepts, Models, Software and Case Studies
- Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Global Issues (Taking Sides)
- TD, Automated Accounting for Windows
Books Index
Books Home
Recommended Books
- History: Fiction or Science
- A Perfect Evil
- Placing Words: Symbols, Space, and the City
- The Factory Acts in Ireland, 1802-1914
- The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe
- 50 Favorite Rooms By Frank Lloyd Wright
- Through a Glass, Darkly
- The Complete Yurt Handbook
- Still Standing: A Century Of Urban Train Station Design
- The Rose's Kiss: A Natural History Of Flowers
Working with Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships
The Leadership Challenge, 4th Edition
Resonant Leadership: Renewing Yourself and Connecting with Others Through Mindfulness, Hope, and Compassion
![Understanding Soil Change: Soil Sustainability Over Millennia, Centuries, and Decades [A book review from: Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment]](http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/21PEA4S0N2L.jpg)