Sublime

But often the victims are the most competent people, because these are the ones who pose the greatest threat to a fixed-mindset boss.

Weiand's emphasis on self-awareness is echoed by Peter Drucker, the seminal thinker on management, who, in his book Management Challenges for the 21st Century, stresses that self-awareness and the capacity to build mutually satisfying relationships provide the backbone of strong management.

Daniel Goleman and other writers have contrasted academic intelligence or IQ with emotional intelligence: “abilities such as being able to motivate oneself and delay gratification; to regulate one’s moods and to keep distress from swamping the ability to think; to empathize and to hope.”5 Emotional intelligence is more crucial for happiness than in

How you respond to your own emotions is the best predictor of everything that matters in life. It is the very essence of emotional intelligence.

“It’s an incredibly consistent effect,” Mr. Keltner says. “When you give people power, they basically start acting like fools. They flirt inappropriately, tease in a hostile fashion, and become totally impulsive.” Mr. Keltner compares the feeling of power to brain damage, noting that people with lots of authority tend to behave like neurological pa