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The Art of Managing Emotions
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The Art of Managing Emotions

Daniel Goleman
WOBI, 2012
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Smart leaders know how to get the best out of their employees. Daniel Goleman, author of the game-changing book Emotional Intelligence, describes a few basics of the human brain and explains how to create the best working environment for your employees in this video lecture. If you want to know the latest science behind employee engagement, getAbstract invites you to sit in on this quick introductory lecture by an innovative thinker.

Summary

Many people don’t find their work engaging. They do just enough to get by, remaining unmotivated and unchallenged. As a result, they produce too little cortisol, and their brain state becomes suppressed. Staffers on the other end of the spectrum are overwhelmed by their jobs and their lack of support or resources. Neither group performs at its best.

Great leaders know how to guide people toward top performance. They challenge workers with inspiring projects but stop short of overloading them. This helps employees reach and maintain the “optimal state for performance,” which neurologists...

About the Speaker

Psychologist Daniel Goleman is a two-time Pulitzer Prize Nominee. He also wrote the New York Times bestseller Emotional Intelligence, and the books Social Intelligence and Vital Lies, Simple Truths, and is a co-author of Optimal, Focus, Primal Leadership, Working with Emotional Intelligence, Altered Traits, and Why We Meditate, among other books.

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    S. G. 33 minutes ago
    Very important information for leaders, to know that their emotions will be transferred to their workers, to their vendors, to their clients and it is important to select the right people to get the job done. Arrogant attitudes, lack of empathy and sympathy, anger and discrimination can be mirrored it and cost the well-being of a company and the loss of contracts.
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    O. C. 3 years ago
    Lo más interesante en mi opinión es el tema de las neuronas espejo, interesante evidencia para implementar estilos de gestión basados en valores compartidos.
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    J. S. 4 years ago
    Importante conocer y aplicar los estados de flujo y la correcta forma de fomentarlos.