("When You Make A Mess, Have Fun Cleaning It Up" is a special series of articles being published every Monday and Wednesday on Forbes during March and April. This is #7 in the series.) The senior executive—let’s call him Ralph—was fuming. You could almost see the steam coming out of his ears. And
Anger is one powerful human emotion. It is also a very normal human emotion that needs to be expressed in a healthy way. But there's a place and time for appropriate anger, and we all have to learn how to manage it before it escalates. That takes emotional intelligence -- the ability to exercise self-awareness to understand the situation
Former US President Bill Clinton was visiting Yale University to give a speech. A Yale dean arrived at the same time seeking a parking spot for his car and he pulled right in front of Mr Clinton’s limousine blocking the exit. This caused the Secret Service agents to jump out of the limousine menancingly,
Athletes who are better at controlling their emotions tend to have better performance, suggests new research published in the journal Personality and Individual Differences. The study found that emotional intelligence was linked to better times in a half-marathon race. “My co-authors and I are all interested in how emotions influence human behavior, although we look
My boss recently sent a city-wide email with a link to an article titled “With 1 Sentence, This NBA Champion Coach Teaches Everything You Need to Know About Emotional Intelligence.” The article was written by Mareo McCracken for Inc.com. McCracken details the story of NBA basketball coach Greg Popovich’s reaction toward a star player asking to
Great leaders ignite our passion, motivate us and inspire the best in us. We usually think vision, dreams, targets and performance are the drivers, but the reality is much more primal: great leadership works through emotion. Such is the idea that journalist and psychologist Daniel Goleman and his colleagues posit in their book Primal Leadership.