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Some powerful and groundbreaking ideas, ruined by uninspired writing, and buried under a mountain of weak examples and pointless study summaries.
It is ironic that a book about Emotional Intelligence was written with so little Emotional Intelligence: the result is as interesting as reading my grocery list. Sadly, an extraordinary topic becomes dull and frustrating.
The book was written by different people, and it shows: while a few parts are exciting and engaging, other chapters are boring and hard to read, and others seem a cut and paste from a Powerpoint presentation or from a technical report.
I doubt that that Daniel Goleman, author of "Emotional Intelligence", was much involved in writing this.
The authors showed many real-life examples of different leaders. This could have been extremely strong and powerful, but it wasn't, with a few exceptions. Most of the real-life examples were just too short to have an impact on me.
Also, the writers seemed quite full of themselves, as they kept reminding us that they worked with thousands of managers, CEOs, executives, entrepreneurs, all from global, multinational, world class companies.
I expected to enjoy this, and to learn something important from it.
Instead, it was so boring, it took me nearly seven months to read it.
It is ironic that a book about Emotional Intelligence was written with so little Emotional Intelligence: the result is as interesting as reading my grocery list. Sadly, an extraordinary topic becomes dull and frustrating.
The book was written by different people, and it shows: while a few parts are exciting and engaging, other chapters are boring and hard to read, and others seem a cut and paste from a Powerpoint presentation or from a technical report.
I doubt that that Daniel Goleman, author of "Emotional Intelligence", was much involved in writing this.
The authors showed many real-life examples of different leaders. This could have been extremely strong and powerful, but it wasn't, with a few exceptions. Most of the real-life examples were just too short to have an impact on me.
Also, the writers seemed quite full of themselves, as they kept reminding us that they worked with thousands of managers, CEOs, executives, entrepreneurs, all from global, multinational, world class companies.
I expected to enjoy this, and to learn something important from it.
Instead, it was so boring, it took me nearly seven months to read it.