«las personas parecen concentrarse mejor cuando se les pide algo más que lo corriente, en cuyo caso son capaces de ir más allá de lo normal. Si la demanda es muy inferior a su capacidad, la persona se...
The difference quite often lies in the abilities called here emotional intelligence, which include self-control, zeal and persistence, and the ability to motivate oneself.
La inteligencia emocional destaca especialmente sobre el CI en aquellos dominios blandos en los que la relevancia del intelecto para el éxito es relativamente menor, es decir, en aquellos dominios en...
Key competencies match a given organization's reality. Each company and each industry has its own emotional ecology, and the most adaptive traits for workers will differ accordingly.
Without missing a beat, Andrews passes out a mimeographed worksheet. In one column are faces of boys and girls, each displaying one of the six basic emotions—happy, sad, angry, surprised, afraid, disg...
La mente del lector suele divagar entre el 20 y 40% del tiempo que dedica a la lectura. No es sorprendente que esto tenga, para los estudiantes, un coste muy elevado, porque la comprensión es inversam...
It’s not the chatter of people around us that is the most powerful distractor, but rather the chatter of our own minds. Utter concentration demands these inner voices be stilled. Start to subtract sev...
It is with the heart that one sees rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye. ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY,The Little Prince
It demoralizes people just to hear that they are doing something wrong without knowing what the specifics are so they can change.
Is it just for me, or for others? For the benefit of the few, or the many? For now, or for the future?
In the twenty-first century, the most successful leaders will focus on sustaining superior performance by aligning people around mission and values, and empowering leaders at all levels, while concent...
In terms of biological design for the basic neural circuitry of emotion, what we are born with is what worked best for the last 50,000 human generations, not the last 500 generations—and certainly not...
In short, out-of-control emotions can make smart people stupid.
In Japan, I learned the hard way that the moment of exchanging business cards signals an important ritual. We Americans are prone to casually pocketing the card without looking, which there indicates...
Durante los primeros años de esta década, el número de mensajes de texto mensuales por adolescente era, por término medio, de 3.417, el doble exacto que unos pocos años antes, al tiempo que caía en pi...
A belligerent samurai, an old Japanese tale goes, once challenged a Zen master to explain the concept of heaven and hell. But the monk replied with scorn, You’re nothing but a lout— I can’t waste my t...
Por ello decimos que el líder desconectado de su mundo interno carece de timón, el indiferente a los sistemas mayores en los que se mueve está perdido, y el inconsciente ante el mundo interpersonal es...
In 80 percent of airline crashes, pilots make mistakes that could have been prevented, particularly if the crew worked together more harmoniously. Teamwork, open lines of communication, cooperation, l...