Daniel Goleman - Skills Quotes

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There is an old-fashioned word for the body of skills that emotional intelligence represents: character.

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Empathy represents the foundation skill for all the social competencies important for work.

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Our emotional intelligence determines our potential for learning the practical skills that are based on its five elements: self-awareness, motivation, self-regulation, empathy, and adeptness in relationships

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Effective leaders are alike in one crucial way: They all have a high degree of what has come to be known as emotional intelligence. It's not that IQ and technical skills are irrelevant. They do matter, but mainly as threshold capabilities ; that is, they are the entry-level requirements for executive positions. But my research, along with other recent studies, clearly shows that emotional intelligence is the sine qua non of leadership.

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There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.

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