Hay muchos estudios que corroboran la persistencia de la agresividad infantil en chicos como Jimmy.11 Como ya hemos visto en otro lugar, los padres de los niños agresivos suelen alternar la indiferenc...
Emotional aptitude is a meta-ability , determining how well we can use whatever other skills we have , including raw inellect .
Carol Gilligan points to as a key disparity between the sexes: boys take pride in a lone, tough-minded independence and autonomy, while girls see themselves as part of a web of connectedness. Thus boy...
CEOs are hired for their intellect and business expertise—and fired for a lack of emotional intelligence.
And that is the problem: academic intelligence offers virtually no preparation for the turmoil—or opportunity—life’s vicissitudes bring. Yet even though a high IQ is no guarantee of prosperity, presti...
My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs - in other words, offer an adult education in social and emotional intelligence.
Tienen suficiente tiempo libre para pensar. Ese es el entorno más favorable para incubar la creatividad. 5.
There was one meta ability that emerged: self-awareness. Chief executives need this ability to assess their own strengths and weaknesses, and so surround themselves with a team of people whose strengt...
Out-of-control emotions can make smart people stupid.
Emotional intelligence, which include self-control, zeal and persistence, and the ability to motivate oneself.
Como dicen los japoneses: «Todos somos más inteligentes que cualquiera de nosotros aisladamente considerado».
Yvonne Sell, the Hay Group’s director of the leadership and talent practice in the United Kingdom, who did the study, found such leaders are rare: only 18 percent of executives attained this level. Th...
When we are in the grip of craving or fury, head-over-heals in love our recoiling in dread, it is the limbic system that has us in its grip.
We're being judged by a new yardstick: not just by how smart we are, or by our training and expertise, but also by how well we handle ourselves and each other.
There are two major streams of self-awareness: me, which builds narratives about our past and future; and I, which brings us into the immediate present. The me, as we’ve seen, links together what we e...
The organizations that compete internally will not be successful in the future.
The hijacking occurs in an instant, triggering this reaction crucial moments before the neocortex, the thinking brain, has had a chance to glimpse fully what is happening, let alone decide if it is a...
Steve Jobs gave a heartfelt talk to a graduating class at Stanford University. His advice: Don’t let the voice of others’ opinions drown out your inner voice. And most important, have the courage to f...
Our memories are in part reconstructions. Whenever we retrieve a memory, the brain rewrites it a bit, updating the past according to our present concerns and understanding. At the cellular level, LeDo...
Más que cualquier otro individuo, el jefe crea las condiciones que determinan directamente la capacidad de sus subordinados para trabajar bien.