improving emotional intelligence
I’ve talked about lawyering and emotional intelligence (EQ) in posts like this one and this one. There’s a new book out called The Emotional Intelligence Quick Book: Everything You Need to Know to Put Your EQ to Work. In it, the authors provide a test for assessing our EQ and tips for improving it. Here’s an interview with one of the book’s authors, psychologist Travis Bradberry. Qualifying his finding that “CEOs as a group have very low EQ scores,” he notes: “Within each profession, the best performers have the highest EQs. Even the best CEOs have the highest EQs. But CEOs are often promoted for being good financial managers, not good people managers.” Bradberry also asserts that the “demand right now for emotional intelligence in business is huge.” Judging from accounts of the public perception of lawyers (discussed here and here), the business of law could use a sizeable infusion of emotionally intelligent leaders.
