Dr Travis Bradberry; Dr Jean Greaves; Patrick M Lencioni

Emotional Intelligence 2.0 - Hardcover

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01/09/2014
While authors Travis B...
While authors Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves do present an opportunity to the reader to empower herself through real self-help in their guide, Emotional Intelligence 2.0, the book is too shamelessly superficial in its coverage of its subject as well as too limited in the range of situations addressed to be a worthwhile investment of time for anyone seeking to make substantial changes in her emotional approach to life. On the positive side, it does provide refreshingly concrete steps people can take to deal with problems that fall within the purview of Bradberry and Graves's concept of "EQ," which is expressly delineated as consisting of four elements in the book, namely: Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness, and Relationship Management. Each element is set forth with a list of well over ten specific easy-to-try strategies to improve ones aptitude in that element. I haven't yet, but I definitely mean to try some out. Couldn't hurt, right? On the negative side, the book comes off as gimmicky and superficial -- at least to this reader. For example, the field of action to apply EQ is taken for granted as the corporate world, and success therein -- in particular higher salaries -- are unabashedly equated with the value of increasing EQ and its application in the reader's life. In other words, the book seems to start from the assumption money is the goal of exercising EQ at least in part -- making oneself and others comfortable and happier is not treated as an end in itself. More dangerous because it is less explicit is the blatant lack of contextualization of such "fascinating findings" as this: "Women and men have the same average self-awareness score, while men score higher in self-management and women score higher in social awareness and relationship management." It seems to me that presented thusly such "fascinating" discoveries lack credibility, significance to the topic at hand (e.g. how the individual reader can improve), and worst of all, can simply reify gendered social stereotypes rather than help people break out of their individual molds (e.g. the readers' particular weaknesses, stereotyped behaviors, stereotyped reads of their behaviors). This idea is far from fresh, and as I just suggested, it isn't fleshed out in this book at all. The use of such figures seems superficial and undermines any possible value to an academic audience I would think (not that that is the primary goal here obviously -- just an observation)... OK, that should be enough negative discourse for one review (sorry)! Bottom line: This is a problematic book that clearly stuck in my craw, BUT it does have some concrete strategies and tips which are worth perusing to deal with specific difficulties in the covered areas of social functioning. Thanks for reading. Please be advised I read a free copy obtained through a Goodreads giveaway.
kara.shamy
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    10/30/2022
    Lilia
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    JB
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    04/30/2016
    When I read a concept ...
    When I read a concept multiple times, it helps me remember it better and also put it to practice more confidently. For example, this book emphasizes self-awareness as the first and the foremost concept towards a higher EQ. Ms. Kelly McGonigal has said 'Without self-awareness, self-control is useless.' in The Willpower Instinct: There are some very simple and easy to practice self-awareness strategies. I could relate to a good number of them. The author discusses self-reflection as one of the strategies in knowing yourself. I personally have been practicing (only to some extent) to answer the following questions - What am I feeling?, Why am I feeling it?, and What should I do about it? - should definitely start doing it more. Relationship management strategies are explained so one can employ them not only with colleagues but in their personal lives as well. The 'Be Open and Be Curious' and 'Take feedback well' strategies sound relatively simple while the 'Only get mad on purpose' is clearly the more challenging one. Now for the downs. Page 31 gives a picture of IQ, EQ and Personality. It quotes: "Of the three, EQ is the only quality that is flexible and able to change." I'm not very sure of this statement. I've read a few articles online where experts are talking about how personalities changes occur over time. Proper brain training has also shown an improved IQ. The book itself mentions "'Plasticity' is the term neurologists use to describe the brain's ability to change." on page 74 clearly contradicting its previous statement. Normam Doidge gives many examples of how people changed their entire lives because of a 'plastic' brain in his book - The Brain That Changes Itself. Now, if the author meant to say 'EQ is the easiest to change among them' - that is a different ball game altogether. And yes, as others mentioned, the ebook version lacks the code required to take the test.
    nmarun
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    12/30/2015
    Much more interesting ...
    Much more interesting as the book goes on. The beginnings examples were utterly exhausting, the later information, much more engaging.
    LaPhenix
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    10/20/2014
    This is one of those b...
    This is one of those books that keeps popping up on the Goodreads giveaway page, and while I have never won a copy, I decided to pick it up when I glanced it on the shelf at my local library. What is Emotional Intelligence? Apparently, it's a rating of how you apply your emotions to your daily life, similar to the way your Intelligence Quotient rates, well, intelligence. In fact, it is surprisingly called "EQ" in order to relate itself to IQ, even though it seems to me that it should then be called "Emotional Quotient." After finding out about EQ and how it affects various aspects of your life, the writers go over some proven strategies that will help the reader improve the different elements of their Emotional Intelligence; Self Awareness, Self Management, Social Awareness, and Relationship Management. All four are important for a healthy EQ, and unlike IQ, which is a number that cannot be changed, EQ just takes some practice using the techniques laid out in this book. Now, apparently there is some online quiz the reader can take with a special code provided in the back of the book, this being a library copy, the code was already revealed and, I'm assuming, used. However, knowing myself I know there are certain aspects of my EQ that need work, and several strategies mentioned seem like they might be of some help, so I'll give them a try.
    regularguy5mb
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    01/09/2014
    While authors Travis B...
    While authors Travis Bradberry and Jean Greaves do present an opportunity to the reader to empower herself through real self-help in their guide, Emotional Intelligence 2.0, the book is too shamelessly superficial in its coverage of its subject as well as too limited in the range of situations addressed to be a worthwhile investment of time for anyone seeking to make substantial changes in her emotional approach to life. On the positive side, it does provide refreshingly concrete steps people can take to deal with problems that fall within the purview of Bradberry and Graves's concept of "EQ," which is expressly delineated as consisting of four elements in the book, namely: Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness, and Relationship Management. Each element is set forth with a list of well over ten specific easy-to-try strategies to improve ones aptitude in that element. I haven't yet, but I definitely mean to try some out. Couldn't hurt, right? On the negative side, the book comes off as gimmicky and superficial -- at least to this reader. For example, the field of action to apply EQ is taken for granted as the corporate world, and success therein -- in particular higher salaries -- are unabashedly equated with the value of increasing EQ and its application in the reader's life. In other words, the book seems to start from the assumption money is the goal of exercising EQ at least in part -- making oneself and others comfortable and happier is not treated as an end in itself. More dangerous because it is less explicit is the blatant lack of contextualization of such "fascinating findings" as this: "Women and men have the same average self-awareness score, while men score higher in self-management and women score higher in social awareness and relationship management." It seems to me that presented thusly such "fascinating" discoveries lack credibility, significance to the topic at hand (e.g. how the individual reader can improve), and worst of all, can simply reify gendered social stereotypes rather than help people break out of their individual molds (e.g. the readers' particular weaknesses, stereotyped behaviors, stereotyped reads of their behaviors). This idea is far from fresh, and as I just suggested, it isn't fleshed out in this book at all. The use of such figures seems superficial and undermines any possible value to an academic audience I would think (not that that is the primary goal here obviously -- just an observation)... OK, that should be enough negative discourse for one review (sorry)! Bottom line: This is a problematic book that clearly stuck in my craw, BUT it does have some concrete strategies and tips which are worth perusing to deal with specific difficulties in the covered areas of social functioning. Thanks for reading. Please be advised I read a free copy obtained through a Goodreads giveaway.
    kara.shamy
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    03/17/2011
    A must for everybody
    This book enhance the behavior of people with people. The EI test is very helpful and provides a report in seconds. No need to study before. In addition the test can be re-done later on to see the changes in EI.
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