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Leadership
- Putting Brain Science to Work in Your CompanyEvery manager faces the same challenge–how do you get the most from the people on your team? In his latest book, “The Brain and Emotional Intelligence: New Insights,” author and psychologist Daniel Go […]
- Want Creative Workers? Loosen the Reins, BossPhilip Glass, the contemporary composer, works on his new compositions only between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. That’s the time, he says, when his creative ideas come to him. When filmmaker George Lucas needs […]
- Are Women More Emotionally Intelligent Than Men?Yes, and Yes and No. Emotional intelligence has four parts: self-awareness, managing our emotions, empathy, and social skill. There are many tests of emotional intelligence, and most seem to show that […]
- Performance Reviews: It’s Not Only What You Say, But How You Say ItPerformance reviews are the HR ritual that everyone dreads. And now brain science shows that positive or negative, the way in which that review gets delivered can be a boon or a curse. If a boss gives […]
- Leadership: Social Intelligence is EssentialI’ve long argued that outstanding leadership requires a combination of self-mastery and social intelligence. What’s the difference? Self-mastery refers to how we handle ourselves; for those familiar w […]
- Resonant LeadersMy book Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence (co-authored with Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee) argues that resonant leaders, who exhibit attributes of emotional and social […]
Emotional intelligence
- Podcast: New Insights on Emotional IntelligenceIn this podcast for Management Consulting News, Mike McLaughlin talks with Daniel Goleman about his recent research on the ways brain science suggests we use our minds to be creative when we need to b […]
- The Brain and Emotional Intelligence: An Interview with Daniel GolemanBy Monty McKeever for Tricycle, May 18, 2011. Read the full interview. Tricycle: How does understanding the brain help us manage stress? Daniel Goleman: There are several ways that understanding some […]
- Stop that BullySkippy was the biggest bully in my grammar school. From a troubled home, Skippy was very unhappy, prone to fits of anger, and very, very mean to kids smaller than him. I thought about Skippy when I re […]
- Picking the Right Brain State for the JobThe brain is like an instrument we can tune for the job at hand—something like tuning a guitar to the right key for a song. Reading the fine print in a contract, cognitive scientists tell us, takes a […]
- Are Women More Emotionally Intelligent Than Men?Yes, and Yes and No. Emotional intelligence has four parts: self-awareness, managing our emotions, empathy, and social skill. There are many tests of emotional intelligence, and most seem to show that […]
- Resilience for the Rest of UsThere are two ways to become more resilient: one by talking to yourself, the other by retraining your brain. If you’ve suffered a major failure, take the sage advice given by psychologist Martin Selig […]
Ecological intelligence
- Anthropocene ThinkingDo you know the PDF of your shampoo? A ‘PDF’ refers to a “partially diminished fraction of an ecosystem,” and if your shampoo contains palm oil cultivated on clearcut jungle in Borneo, say, that value […]
- How Market Forces Can Build a Greener WorldWith climate legislation dead in Congress and the fizzled hopes for a breakthrough in Copenhagen fading into distant memory, the time seems ripe for fresh strategies – especially ones that do not depe […]
- Leading sustainabilityThree teen-aged girls are at a shopping mall looking for sunscreen. It’s an impulse purchase, and it has to be an all-natural choice. They think they’ve found what they’re looking for at one store, bu […]
- Earthster: A Metric Tool for Leaders in the Age of TransparencyThe age of ecological transparency is nigh. Business leaders now must learn to embrace “externalities” (like pollution) and work to lessen them, as Christopher Meyer and Julia Kirby argued in the Harv […]
- Our Bodies’ Chemical Burden: Little Doses Matter a LotHere’s sobering news: any one of us, anywhere on the planet, lugs hundreds of industrial chemicals around in our bodies – and they are up to no good. If you want to know what industrial chemical compo […]
- What We Don’t Know About the Toxic Stuff Around UsConsider a box of microwaveable, butter-flavored popcorn. The label assures buyers it has zero grams of trans-fat and “zero mg cholesterol.” But the ingredients list fails to mention that the savory b […]
Welcome to the website and blog of psychologist Daniel Goleman, Ph.D., author of the New York Times bestseller Emotional Intelligence and Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships. Dr. Goleman is an internationally known psychologist who lectures frequently to professional groups, business audiences, and on college campuses. Working as a science journalist, Goleman reported on the brain and behavioral sciences for The New York Times for many years. His 1995 book, Emotional Intelligence (Bantam Books) was on The New York Times bestseller list for a year-and-a-half; with more than 5,000,000 copies in print worldwide in 40 languages, and has been a best seller in many countries. Read more »
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Appearances
- December 16-18 Kripalu, Stockbridge, MA
- March 28 Frankfurt, Germany
- March 29 Warsaw, Poland
- March 30 Prague
- April 20-22 Kripalu Institute
- July 23-24 Andrews College, Michigan
- May 18 Mexico City
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