Mixed feelings about this.
1) The first half of the book was awesome - the framework of leadership styles, and the personal leadership development plan.
2) The second half of the book - about organization-level EI leadership development - was a complete bore. It was itself what it most criticised: lengthy stream of nice-sounding but rather empty words, quite non-inspirational and intangible. "In this company they ran a program X and everybody was transformed, in that company they ran program Y and it fell flat." All these stories seemed to lack the specificness or detail to actually tell and teach anything, or at least they were not interesting to read, even though hopes were high after the great first half of the book. Or maybe I'm just too junior of a manager to be turned on by this org-level EI transformation talk.

The author talks about the importance of emotional intelligence in different leadership positions. It gives good examples and study cases why having high EI is good for the general performance and well being of the teams he is part of.

A very good thing that I learned from the book is the fact that you need to switch different leadership styles depending on the situation, and don't just apply a leadership style that you are good at, because you can do more harm than good even if you have the best intentions.

3.5 stars - some very helpful tips and exercises to boost emotional intelligence and performance. I liked the breakdown of EI, styles of leadership, and the chapters in part 2 about the 5 discoveries of resonant leaders. I found the application of these concepts to teams and companies in part 3 a bit repetitive, though!

Es un libro entendible y muy educativo. Siento que después de la pagina 112 se vuelve muy repetitivo.
Me encantaron estas frases:
El liderazgo no es sinónimo de dominación sino el arte de convencer a la gente que colabore para alcanzar un objetivo en común.
Creo en ti, invierto en ti y espero que des lo mejor de ti
Mandar con el corazón!
El estrés atonta a la gente

This was so boring why was it a million pages long

Πενταράκι δαγκωτό. Απλός, κατανοητός, επεξηγηματικός.
Σίγουρα θα διαβάσω και άλλα του βιβλία.

The points that got my eye:
- Everyone is an open loop system, you just have to know how to couple your emotions to them.
- Smiles achieve limpic system interlock.
- Emotions interfere with work, while modes do not. Specially upbeat modes.

It wasn't interesting book though. I have found it boring and poor in content. Maybe, this is due to the fact that I don't like depending on emotions and EQ in general, but it was quite lengthy and repeating in some parts.

Một quyển sách khá hay về EQ

I’m a little surprised that this rating isn’t higher.

First, I have to say that I listened to the audiobook. And the audiobook was great! This is an excellent book about leadership!

There are so many leadership books out there, but this one covers some key topics that others miss - “buy-in” and why leadership training often fails. Those are two important topics that are not discussed as much as they should be. This is important, because if you don’t know the potential problems of your leadership training - then whatever you try to implement won’t work as effectively as you would like.

For any aspiring leader this is a must read!

Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence - the book's subject is truly interesting and worth exploring.
However, once you read the major part of it, there's almost nothing new - just the same repeated idea that emotional intelligence is important. Thus the book could be so much shorter.
This book is highly theoretical and severely lacks touches on practical learning (although might be not bad at creating motivation to learn and search for information somewhere else).

A very good book on EI and how organizations will have a better chance of success when leadership displays and lives the right EI traits. Looking through past and current organizations, I've seen the leaders demonstrate the right EI traits helping an organization and other leaders demonstrate EI traits that have created toxic environments.

This book was also a good self reflection for me to highlight areas I am doing ok on as well as areas where I have struggled in the past and where I'm working to change behaviors. This book was published on/about 2002 and is relevant to this day. Would recommend this if you are looking and willing to take a good at your own leadership styles and how they impact the organization and people around you.

Non originale quanto Intelligenza Emotiva