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How to Boost Your (and Others’) Emotional Intelligence

Harvard Business Review

Among the various core ingredients of talent and career success, few personal qualities have received more attention in the past decade than emotional intelligence (EQ), the ability to identify and manage your own and others’ emotions. Emotional Intelligence. 3 Ways to Better Understand Your Emotions.

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How Women Can Show Passion at Work Without Seeming “Emotional”

Harvard Business Review

That’s what we’ve found in our review of more than 1,000 360-degree feedback reports on female executives. If some colleagues, male or female, don’t respond to passionate appeals, they may respond more favorably to a different tactic. Support what your gut is telling you.