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Emotional Intelligence

Just Listen - Modem Operandi: When Artificial Intelligence meets Emotional Intelligence

Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 10.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Modems, Mark Goulston, Jason-Calacanis, Emotional Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, Communication, Living News
Mark Goulston, M.D.

After listening and caring about the needs of the world around us, a break certainly gives us a break, but what works even better is to have the world reciprocate by listening and caring about us in return.

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Emotional Education

Darryle Pollack | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Parenting, Back to School, Emotions, Emotional Intelligence, Living News
Darryle Pollack

I wish life came with a lesson plan. I wish five-year-olds never had to be rejected from anything. I wish all kids could get the education their parents hope they will get.

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EQ Deficit Threatens Health Care Reform

Deborah Plummer | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Diversity, Emotional Intelligence, Rep. Joe Wilson, Politics News
Deborah Plummer

Whatever the details of the health care bill, our ability to shape the future will be determined by how we interact and treat those with whom we most vehemently disagree.

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Is 'Emotional Intelligence' The New Hiring Criterion?

The Boston Globe | Erica Noonan | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Job Market, Work Life Balance, The Balanced Life, Career, Job Interview, Hire, Emotional Quotient, Emotional Intelligence, Interview, Eq, Living News

In this job market, it's not just who you know, or even what skills you've mastered. It's how well you understand other people that will get you ahead...

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The Core Problem in Business - It's Not What You Think

Brian Whetten | Posted 08.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Conscious Business, Aig, General Motors, Wall Street Bailout, Goldman Sachs, Business Crisis, Brian Whetten, Selling by Giving, Wall Street Crisis, Business, Executive Coaching, Emotional Intelligence, Business News
Brian Whetten

Study after study shows that the core problem in business is not a lack of cognitive intelligence. It's a lack of emotional intelligence.

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Are Women More Emotionally Intelligent Than Men?

Dan Goleman | Posted 07.05.2009 | Business

Read More: John Mayer, Leadership, Empathy, Peter Salovey, Emotional-Intelligence, Naomi Wolf, Emotional Intelligence, Paul Ekman, Business News
Dan Goleman

By the year 2018, the workplace will be one where the demand for "female" management skills will be far stronger than today.

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Why the "Right Brain" Idea is Wrong-Headed

Joseph LeDoux | Posted 06.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Thought, Education, Intelligence, Emotion, Empathy, Reason, Brain, Split-Brain, Life Coaching, Intuition, Society, Business, Emotional Intelligence, Mind, Logic, Living News
Joseph LeDoux

Talking about the right brain as the way of the future is a step backwards to a time when intuitive impressions about the brain were all we had.

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How to Create Meaningful Ethical Reform in Business

Brian Whetten | Posted 06.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Conscious Business, Leadership, Education, Ethical Reform, Wall Street Reform, Ethics, Business Reform, Selling by Giving, Wall Street Crisis, Business, Emotional Intelligence, Business News
Brian Whetten

If we wish to create meaningful ethical reform in business, it requires teaching students practical, concrete, psychological tools.

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The Upside of Stress

Gary Zukav | Posted 06.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Healing, Emotional Intelligence, Spiritual Practice, Spirituality, Stress, Living News
Gary Zukav

The dynamic is the same whether the change appears minor, major, or ultimate -- resistance to change, not change itself, creates stress.

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Breaking Up Is Hard to Do - The Heart of the Matter

Dr. Gino Yu | Posted 06.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Psychology, Neuroscience, Breaking Up, Brain, Relationships, Emotional Intelligence, Love, Social Consciousness, Consciousness, Living News
Dr. Gino Yu

The day before a breakup and the day just after a break-up feel very different. One moment life is full of meaning and purpose, and in an instant everything changes.

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"Empathy" -- Who's Got It, Who Does Not

Dan Goleman | Posted 06.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Obama, Empathy, Emotional Intelligence, U.S. Supreme Court, Supreme Court, Justice Souter, David Souter Retires, David Souter, Souter Replacement, Living News
Dan Goleman

There are at least three varieties of empathy, each with very different implications for spotting the right candidate.

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Finding Emotional Stability in a Time of Economic Instability

Susan Kaiser Greenland | Posted 05.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Intuition, Education, Mindfulness, Emotional Intelligence, Social Emotional Learning, Living News
Susan Kaiser Greenland

Many children's lives are seriously out-of-balance long before they reach adulthood and they needn't be. So let's help families find emotional stability in this time of economic instability.

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Benevolent Sexism: Men Can't Help Themselves, Study Shows

Rick Smith | Posted 03.26.2009 | Style

Read More: Benevolent Sexism, Daniel Goldman, Bikini, Gender Roles, Victoria's Secret, Susan Fiske, Princeton, Sexism, Work-Place-Attire, Evolution, Emotional Intelligence, Neanderthal, Style News
Rick Smith

Fiske suggested that "if there are sexualized pictures of women in the workplace, there may be a spillover effect, perhaps influencing the way people perceive female colleagues."

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Can Games, Meditation and Parenting Help Improve Attention?

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 11.10.2008 | Living

Read More: Michael Posner, Dogan Prize, Neuroscience, Attention, Mindfulness, Health, Brain Training, Cogniitve, Memory, Meditation, Parenting, Brain Fitness, Video Games, Meditation Practice, Emotional Intelligence, Living News
Alvaro Fernandez

I am honored to interview today Michael I. Posner, a prominent scientist in the field of cognitive neuroscience.

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"That one!" Condescension and Contempt Redux

Jerry Weissman | Posted 11.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Al Gore, Daniel Goleman, John McCain, Economis Crisis, George H. W. Bush, Presidential Debates, Emotional Intelligence, Social Intelligence, Barack Obama, Politics News
Jerry Weissman

In the heat of the 1992 presidential campaign, during a town hall style debate, President George H. W. Bush looked at his wristwatch while he was bein...

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Mr. Emotional Intelligence

Perry Garfinkel | Posted 03.29.2008 | Living

Read More: Daniel Goleman, More Than Sound, Danuman Goleman, Richard Davison, George Lucas, Dr. Daniel Siegel, Naomi Wolf, Larry Brilliant, The Inner Life, Emotional Intelligence, Paul Ekman, Living News
Perry Garfinkel

I have been a Daniel Goleman groupie since the mid-1970s, when we met in Cambridge, Massachusetts. We were among a wave of young Americans just return...

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