Primal Leadership
Subtitle: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Published: March 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781591391845
Subjects: Management & management techniques; Leadership; Business / Economics / Finance; Business & Economics; Business/Economics; Management; Executive ability; Psychological aspects
First sentence: GREAT LEADERS move us.
Description: Examines the role of emotional intelligence in leadership, presenting actual CEOs and managers as examples and describing a process that helps leaders inspire and motivate, increase performance, and lead resonantly.
Table of contents: title: The partnership between Goleman, Boyatzis and McKee works well with Goleman’s brand of emotional intelligence being fused with McKee and Boyatzis’ research on resonant leadership and self-directed learning.  “A fundamental task of leaders, “ they argue,” is to prime good feelings in those they lead.. the primal root is emotional”.; title: At the heart of Goleman’s interpretation of Emotional Intelligence set out in his influential book of the same name, is the core issue of self-direction and choice.  At the opening of Emotional intelligence he quotes from Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics “Anyone can be angry – that is easy.  But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way  - this is not easy.”   Emotional intelligence, for Goleman, is not about suppressing emotions, it is about intentionalising them.; title: Cue primal leadership  - if you resonant that emotional intentionality through every aspect of your leadership style and approach you begin to connect with people in a more meaningful and empathetic way.  Dissonant leaders don’t do this – they use old-fashioned command/control behaviours to pace others and get things done, but they also leave a trail of destruction, bad feeling, demotivation and a talent exodus from the organisation.; title: Resonant leadership, primed by emotional intelligence, is self-learnt (through developing such things as self-awareness  and relationship building) and sustains motivation, commitment and performance throughout the organisation.