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Why Young Bankers, Lawyers, and Consultants Need Emotional Intelligence

Harvard Business Review

You’ll learn that the key to being successful must be something else. As Daniel Goleman wrote in HBR in 1998 , “Without it, a person can have the best training in the world, an incisive, analytical mind, and an endless supply of smart ideas, but he still won’t make a great leader.” Sponsored by Korn Ferry.

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How Emotional Intelligence Became a Key Leadership Skill

Harvard Business Review

Some years later, Mayer defined it in HBR this way: From a scientific (rather than a popular) standpoint, emotional intelligence is the ability to accurately perceive your own and others’ emotions; to understand the signals that emotions send about relationships; and to manage your own and others’ emotions. Self-regulation.