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wandering_not_lost 's review for:
Emotional Intelligence 2.0
by Jean Greaves, Travis Bradberry
For a book so obviously meant to support a consulting pitch, this book offers some very good tips on how to actively cultivate the different aspects of emotional intelligence. The first half of the book is definitions and examples of good and bad social awareness skills. That part will be a bit of a yawn to anyone who has done even a little reading in this area, but the latter half of the book gives some good, practical tips on how to cultivate self-awareness, social awareness, relationship management, and self-management. There's a few gems in here that I hadn't thought of or hadn't thought of in quite that way, which makes me glad I read the book.
That said, for all it's got "2.0" in the title, I didn't get the feeling that this book really pushed the EI field any further than other works have. The authors don't acknowledge, really, any other EI work out there. There's not so much as a mention of anyone else's (including Goleman, Solovey, or Mayer) ground-laying work. Instead, the authors focus on their own surveys and their own "test" you can take. (I was not impressed by the test, really...all it did was ask, basically, "do you feel like you display this EI quality?" which focuses on your own assessment of yourself rather than measuring anything objective.) Overall, the book was a useful introduction and not a terrible "if you only read one book..." selection, but it felt much more like an introduction than a definitive, fleshed-out discussion of the topic.
That said, for all it's got "2.0" in the title, I didn't get the feeling that this book really pushed the EI field any further than other works have. The authors don't acknowledge, really, any other EI work out there. There's not so much as a mention of anyone else's (including Goleman, Solovey, or Mayer) ground-laying work. Instead, the authors focus on their own surveys and their own "test" you can take. (I was not impressed by the test, really...all it did was ask, basically, "do you feel like you display this EI quality?" which focuses on your own assessment of yourself rather than measuring anything objective.) Overall, the book was a useful introduction and not a terrible "if you only read one book..." selection, but it felt much more like an introduction than a definitive, fleshed-out discussion of the topic.