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Chris Golis is the author of three books: The Humm Handbook --- Lifting Your Level of Emotional Intelligence, Enterprise & Venture Capital --- A Business Builders' and Investors' Handbook, and Empathy Selling -- The New Sales Technique for the 21st Century. After successful careers in IT and venture capital, Chris...- more about Chris Golis »
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- Is There Such a Thing as Emotional Intelligence?
- I recently attended a seminar entitled Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace. The speaker was lively and enthusiastic and promoted the Emotional Blueprint model of Mayer-Salovey. To those unfamiliar with this model, the underlying principles are as follows: Emotion is information and ignoring it does not work. ...
- Blog posts 2009-01-28
- Marshmallows: The Secret of Improving your EQ
- In his seminal book, Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goldman maintains that the master aptitude of the emotionally intelligent person as the ability to delay self-gratification. As proof Goldman cited the marshmallow experiment carried out by Walter Mischel in the late 1960s at the Bing Nursery School on the campus of...
- Blog posts 2009-05-31
- Cracking the Colour Code
- A joke extracted from a talk by Charlie Munger, Warren Buffet’s partner: Then there was the guy who sold fishing tackle. I asked him, "My God, they're purple and green. Do fish really take these lures?" And he said, "Mister, I don't sell to fish." ...
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- Change Your Life by Changing Lanes
- 10 Items or Less is an independent film shot in 15 days starring Morgan Freeman and Paz Vega. I first saw it on a plane trip to Los Angeles; I was attracted admittedly by the chance of watching Paz Vega in action. To my astonishment as I watched...
- Blog posts 2009-06-23
- How to make $28 million using EQ
- I belong to the Emotional Intelligence group on LinkedIn and someone recently asked members if they could supply a story where they had used emotional intelligence successfully. I offered this example: The story begins in 1988. John Iremonger, then a leading publisher with Allen &...
- Blog posts 2009-07-25
- Turnbull's Fatal Flaw
- One of the great benefits of living in a democracy like Australia is that you can see and read about the actions of political leaders and learn from their mistakes. We have just seen Malcolm Turnbull, the leader of the Opposition, because a fatal flaw in his personality, shoot...
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- How Much EQ Does Steve Jobs Really Have? (Part 1)
- What kicked off this blog was a excellent article by Fiona Smith in the Australian Financial Review (16 November 2009): The downside of being nice. The thrust of the article was that while every management book in recent years has stressed the importance of workplace harmony,...
- Blog posts 2009-11-22
- EQ: The Secret of the Professional Poker Player
- I recently read a terrific article about professional poker players in The New Yorker called What would Jesus bet? The article features Chris Ferguson, widely regarded by his peers as the best professional poker play in the world and who is nicknamed "Jesus" because of his physical appearance. The...
- Blog posts 2009-04-30
- Is Golf the Perfect Way to learn EQ?
- I had the great fortune to attend the 2009 Masters tournament in Augusta. This is an event that should be on every golfer's bucket list. On the final day my wife and I were sitting in stands overlooking the 16th par 3 hole and the 15th green. ...
- Blog posts 2009-04-25
- Temperament is More Important than Transient Emotions
- As I said in my previous blog, I found The Emotionally Intelligent Manager: HOW TO DEVELOP AND USE THE FOUR KEY EMOTIONAL SKILLS OF LEADERSHIP by David R. Caruso and Peter Salovey a disappointing read, along with almost half of the 37 reviewers on Amazon.com. I believe...
- Blog posts 2009-02-02
- Can You Be Too Positive?
- While I have been critical of The Emotionally Intelligent Manager: HOW TO DEVELOP AND USE THE FOUR KEY EMOTIONAL SKILLS OF LEADERSHIP by David R. Caruso and Peter Salovey, there was one concept in the book that I found compelling: namely the usefulness of negative emotions. What...
- Blog posts 2009-02-04
- Step 1: Self-awareness - Lifting Your EI
- I have stated previously that I don't like the Mayer-Salovey Emotional Blueprint model that EQ Emotional intelligence Quotient comprises the four abilities of being able to identify, use, understand and manage emotions. I am much happier with Daniel Goleman's model that describes EQ as comprises four steps: ...
- Blog posts 2009-02-09
- Step 2: Self-management — Lifting Your EI
- Knowing the dominant and weak core emotional drives of your temperament is the important first step in lifting your EQ Emotional intelligence Quotient. However, the second step of learning to control and moderate your core emotional drives is even more important. In previous blogs I have mentioned...
- Blog posts 2009-02-11
- Step 3: Empathy - Working Out the Core Emotional Drives of Others (Part 1)
- While self-knowledge and self-control are important steps in developing Emotional Intelligence it is probably the other two steps of empathy and relationship management that are more important for success in life. How do you work out the core emotional drives of other people? How do you develop...
- Blog posts 2009-02-16
- Getting a Handle on Core Emotions
- Behaviour, personality and temperament --- how do they all fit together? This question was raised by a serendipitous connection between recently reading a copy of The Emotional Intelligence Quick Book by Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves and a query raised by Joshua Freedman on the LinkedIn Emotional Intelligence Network saying...
- Blog posts 2009-03-05
- Is EQ a Placebo?
- On 23/2/09 Denise Mannix posted the following on this blog. Hi Chris I know you do not appear to be too partial to the Mayer-Salovey work on emotions. I would suggest that if you haven't already undertaken the individual MSCEIT and had the feedback...
- Blog posts 2009-03-09
- Can U B 2 â€"ve?
- Following on from my previous blog I should say that I have done three seminars on Emotional Intelligence where the core technology was Salovey-Mayer model. One was organised by the Harvard Business School, the second by the University of Sydney and the third seminar was organised by the American...
- Blog posts 2009-03-15
- Is Saturday the Best Book on EQ?
- One of my major criticisms of the Salovey-Meyer model is that it has too much focus is on transient emotions and too little time is spent on temperament, which is our genetic predisposition to reacting emotionally. Only about 3% of The Emotionally Intelligent Manager is spent on this topic....
- Blog posts 2009-03-23
- When Will We Ever Learn? A Postscript
- Last November Jeffery Pfeffer was in Sydney at the invitation of Australian Institute of Management presenting on his current topic, Evidence Based Management for Business based on his latest book Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths and Total Nonsense: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management jointly written with Robert Sutton. I attended the...
- Blog posts 2009-03-29
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- The Attitude of Wisdom
- I have been on holidays for the past three weeks in the USA attending among other things the Masters in Augusta. I will write a blog next week about golf and emotional intelligence but I need to wrap up Mr Pfeffer. In the previous blog I...
- Blog posts 2009-04-20
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