by Daniel Goleman
Goleman makes the case that emotional intelligence matters more than IQ for career success. Technical ability gets you hired, but self-awareness, empathy, and social skill determine who leads.
In this collection, Working with Emotional Intelligence references 2 other books and is cited by 6 other books.
It draws on Emotional Intelligence and Flow.
It’s picked up by Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find--and Keep--Love, Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love and Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence and 3 others.
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Working with Emotional Intelligence is cited across a surprisingly wide range of fields -- from relationship science to management research to conflict resolution -- as evidence that interpersonal competencies predict success more reliably than technical ability. Marcus Buckingham's Gallup research in First, Break All the Rules reinforces Goleman's thesis that what differentiates great managers is emotional skill, while Marshall Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication offers concrete verbal protocols for the empathy competencies Goleman describes.
Sue Johnson extends the framework from workplace to intimate relationships in Hold Me Tight, and Esther Perel pushes it further into erotic intelligence in Mating in Captivity. Readers value the book for making a data-driven case that soft skills are hard currency, though some wish Goleman provided more actionable exercises rather than research summaries.
The books Goleman references and why each one mattered to the argument.
Goleman directly extends his Emotional Intelligence research to professional and organisational settings
References Csikszentmihalyi's flow research when discussing how emotional self-regulation enables peak work performance
The exact passages where other authors bring up “Working with Emotional Intelligence” and what they take from it.
Aligns with Goleman's Working with Emotional Intelligence on how early emotional patterns reshape adult relational dynamics, applied specifically to mate selection and pair bonding
Cited in
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find--and Keep--Loveby Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
Extends Goleman's Working with Emotional Intelligence framework, showing how the same emotional competencies that matter at work are essential for repairing attachment injuries
Extends Goleman's Working with Emotional Intelligence from workplace to bedroom, arguing that erotic intelligence is a distinct competence requiring imagination and play
Engages Goleman's Working with Emotional Intelligence on workplace empathy, offering NVC as the concrete verbal protocol EI competencies imply
Both explore how a leader's internal emotional state radiates outward to affect team dynamics; Arbinger's self-deception concept extends Goleman's working emotional intelligence to organisational behavior
Buckingham's research on what differentiates great managers reinforces Goleman's Working with Emotional Intelligence thesis that interpersonal competencies predict workplace success
Cited in
First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differentlyby Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman
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7 shared citations
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