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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.”

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How Emotional Intelligence Became a Key Leadership Skill

Harvard Business Review

It took almost a decade after the term was coined for Rutgers psychologist Daniel Goleman to establish the importance of emotional intelligence to business leadership. In subsequent work, Goleman focuses more deeply on these various elements of emotional intelligence. Further Reading.