Emotional Intelligence (EQ)

Emotional Intelligence, or ‘EQ’ for Emotional Quotient, is all about personal and interpersonal wisdom. Essentially, it means to know thyself and play well with others.

Whereas General Intelligence or ‘G’ is considered to be quite stable, the result of genes and other biological factors, EQ is highly learnable. You can actively develop it. So if you are awake at the wheel of life, your EQ will increase over time.

Here are some posts that make mention of it, directly or indirectly.

Is your boss a corporate psychopath?

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Does this remind you of anyone? Superficially charming, even warm. Extreme intimidation of others. Manipulative and controlling. Bad tempered. Self-obsessed. Lacking remorse.

Then you may be working with a corporate psychopath. Contrary to popular understanding, psychopathology is not always about murderousness. It’s defined broadly as …

And there’s a surprising amount of it about. One woman in 200 is classifiable as a psychopath, as is one man in 80. Chances are, you have a psychopath in your building. Read more…