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Optimal : how to sustain personal and organizational excellence every day / Daniel Goleman & Cary Cherniss.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Harper Business, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023]Edition: First editionDescription: vi, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780063279766
  • 0063279762
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Contents:
Introduction: Your optimal zone -- Part I. The emotional intelligence path to optimal performance : Optimal you ; Emotional intelligence and the bottom line -- Part II. Emotional intelligence: the details : Emotional intelligence, redux ; Self-awareness applied ; Manage yourself ; From burnout to resilience ; Empathy ; Manage your relationships -- Part III. Emotional intelligence at work : The many names for emotional intelligence ; Leading with emotional intelligence ; Emotionally intelligent teams ; EI training that works ; Building an EI culture -- Part IV. The future of emotional intelligence : The crucial mix ; Innovation and systems.
Summary: "A book on emotional intelligence in organizations"-- Provided by publisher.Summary: There are moments when we achieve peak performance: An athlete plays a perfect game; a business has a quarter with once-in-a-lifetime profits. But these moments are often elusive, and for every amazing day, we may have a hundred ordinary and even unsatisfying days. Fulfillment doesn't come from isolated peak experiences, but rather from many consistent good days. So how do we sustain performance, while avoiding burnout and maintaining balance? In Optimal, Daniel Goleman and Cary Cherniss reveal how emotional intelligence can help us have a great day, any day. They explain how to set a realistic, attainable goal of feeling satisfied that you've had a productive day -- to consistently work at your 'optimal' level. Based on research of how hundreds of people build the inner architecture of having a good day, they sketch what an optimal state feels like, and show how emotional intelligence holds the key to our best performance. Optimal is the culmination of decades of scientific discoveries bearing on emotional intelligence. Enhanced emotional intelligence pays off in improved engagement, productivity, and more satisfying days. In this book, you'll find the keys to competence in emotional intelligence, and practical methods for applying this skill set more readily. It will equip you to become a highly effective leader and enable you to build an organizational culture that empowers workers to sustain high performance.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction New 152.4 G625 Checked out 06/24/2024 33111011246853
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In his groundbreaking #1 bestseller Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman revolutionized how we think about intelligence. Now, he reveals practical methods for using these inner resources to more readily enter an optimal state of high performance and satisfaction while avoiding burnout.

There are moments when we achieve peak performance: An athlete plays a perfect game; a business has a quarter with once-in-a-lifetime profits. But these moments are often elusive, and for every amazing day, we may have a hundred ordinary and even unsatisfying days. Fulfillment doesn't come from isolated peak experiences, but rather from many consistent good days. So how do we sustain performance, while avoiding burnout and maintaining balance?

In Optimal, Daniel Goleman and Cary Cherniss reveal how emotional intelligence can help us have a great day, any day. They explain how to set a realistic, attainable goal of feeling satisfied that you've had a productive day -- to consistently work at your 'optimal' level. Based on research of how hundreds of people build the inner architecture of having a good day, they sketch what an optimal state feels like, and show how emotional intelligence holds the key to our best performance.

Optimal is the culmination of decades of scientific discoveries bearing on emotional intelligence. Enhanced emotional intelligence pays off in improved engagement, productivity, and more satisfying days. In this book, you'll find the keys to competence in emotional intelligence, and practical methods for applying this skill set more readily. It will equip you to become a highly effective leader and enable you to build an organizational culture that empowers workers to sustain high performance.



Includes bibliographical references and index.

"A book on emotional intelligence in organizations"-- Provided by publisher.

There are moments when we achieve peak performance: An athlete plays a perfect game; a business has a quarter with once-in-a-lifetime profits. But these moments are often elusive, and for every amazing day, we may have a hundred ordinary and even unsatisfying days. Fulfillment doesn't come from isolated peak experiences, but rather from many consistent good days. So how do we sustain performance, while avoiding burnout and maintaining balance? In Optimal, Daniel Goleman and Cary Cherniss reveal how emotional intelligence can help us have a great day, any day. They explain how to set a realistic, attainable goal of feeling satisfied that you've had a productive day -- to consistently work at your 'optimal' level. Based on research of how hundreds of people build the inner architecture of having a good day, they sketch what an optimal state feels like, and show how emotional intelligence holds the key to our best performance. Optimal is the culmination of decades of scientific discoveries bearing on emotional intelligence. Enhanced emotional intelligence pays off in improved engagement, productivity, and more satisfying days. In this book, you'll find the keys to competence in emotional intelligence, and practical methods for applying this skill set more readily. It will equip you to become a highly effective leader and enable you to build an organizational culture that empowers workers to sustain high performance.

Introduction: Your optimal zone -- Part I. The emotional intelligence path to optimal performance : Optimal you ; Emotional intelligence and the bottom line -- Part II. Emotional intelligence: the details : Emotional intelligence, redux ; Self-awareness applied ; Manage yourself ; From burnout to resilience ; Empathy ; Manage your relationships -- Part III. Emotional intelligence at work : The many names for emotional intelligence ; Leading with emotional intelligence ; Emotionally intelligent teams ; EI training that works ; Building an EI culture -- Part IV. The future of emotional intelligence : The crucial mix ; Innovation and systems.

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