One of the most critical decisions you can make is to take on the role as leader. If you aspire to this role, have you considered the intricacies of being a leader? There are three essential fundamentals that will help you become an exemplary leader: high emotional intelligence, inner agility and emotional bonding with

Experts say the ability to read, understand and respond to emotions in ourselves and others is crucial in predicting our health, happiness and success. You might think you're fairly intelligent, but are you emotionally intelligent? It's our emotional intelligence that gives us the ability to read our instinctive feelings and those of others. It also

    ("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