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Your emotions are highly contagious. Which ones are you spreading through your firm? Best of HBR on
Emotionally
Intelligent
Leadership,
2nd Edition

Included with this collection:

2 What Makes a Leader? by Daniel Goleman

14 Leadership That Gets Results by Daniel Goleman

30 Primal Leadership: The Hidden Driver of Great
Performance
by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee

42 Social Intelligence and the Biology of Leadership by Daniel Goleman and Richard Boyatzis

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Best of HBR on Emotionally Intelligent
Leadership, 2nd Edition
Collection Overview
What distinguishes great leaders from merely good ones? It’s not toughness, vision, or industry smarts. It’s their emotional intelligence—a potent combination of self-management and relationship skills.
Studies strongly suggest that emotional intelligence plays a far greater role than IQ in determining leaders’ effectiveness, and thus their organizations’ success.
To increase your emotional intelligence, start by understanding the skills that define it. Then learn how to flexibly interchange those skills to meet the needs of shifting circumstances. Finally, use mood contagion (a powerful neurological process) to create positive chemical connections between your and your followers’ brains.

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Featuring the work of Daniel Goleman, this
HBR Article Collection shows you how to foster and spread the positive emotions that drive quantifiable business results in your firm.

The Articles
3 Article Summary
4 What Makes a Leader? by Daniel Goleman
Emotional intelligence comprises five self-management and relationship skills. Selfmanagement skills include 1) self-awareness—knowing your strengths, weaknesses, and emotions and their

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