The EQ Edge

In The EQ Edge Steven Stein and Howard Book provide you with the tools you need to assess and enhance your emotional intelligence. Each chapter explores a different EQ skill, from emotional self-awareness and independence, to empathy and inter-personal relationships, reality testing and problem solving, as well as optimism and happiness. By using concrete definitions, true to life anecdotes and correlations between each skill and success, the authors take the mystery and mumbo-jumbo out of EQ. There are also practical tips and exercises that give you an understanding of each skill and more importantly, how to improve them, including:

• emotional self-awareness;
• independence;
• empathy;
• problem solving;
• assertiveness;
• optimism;
• happiness.

Incredibly the authors have looked at nearly 42,000 people from 36 countries – people in many professions and from all walks of life – during their investigation into EQ. The EQ Edge is full of their real-life stories, their issues and problems, and these demonstrate how powerful the application of the principles of EQ can be. Their stories prove it definitively: emotional intelligence equals success!

Contents

• The EQ Explosion
• The Intrapersonal Realm
• The Interpersonal Realm
• Socila Responsability
• The Adaptability Realm
• The Stress Management REalm
• The General Mood Realm
• Putting It All Together
• Appendixes
• Index