Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ Author: Daniel Goldman, PhD Publisher: Bantam Books; 10th Anniversary edition (September 27, 2005) Paperback: 384 pages ISBN-10: 055338371X ISBN-13: 978-0553383713

About the Book
Emotional Intelligence delineates the five crucial skills of emotional intelligence and shows how they determine our success in relationships, work, and even our physical well-being. What emerges is an entirely new way to talk about being smart. The author points out that "emotional literacy" is not fixed early in life. Every parent, every teacher, every business leader, and everyone interested in a more civil society, has a stake in this compelling vision of human possibility.

Part One (Goleman recommends skipping this if you're not into neurological details)is very interestingexplanation of the emotional "architecture" of the brain.

Parts Two through Five expounds on feelings (e.g., anger, empathy, passion, depression), personality, upbringing, aptitude, and treatment, etc., citing study after study to show that today's children are most decidedly a product of how they were treated in their earliest years, but nevertheless are winding up far less able then their ancestors were to handle even the slightest emotional dilemma.

This book is more for parents trying to raise an emotionally intelligent child. There's not a lot of real world applications from this book. The book makes the case that emotional intelligence is a must have, but it doesn't really tell us how to horn those skills.

About the Author
Goleman is a co-founder of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning, originally at the Yale Child Studies Center and now at the University of Illinois at Chicago. CASEL’s mission centers on bringing evidence-based programs in emotional literacy to schools worldwide.

He currently co-directs the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations at Rutgers University. The consortium fosters research partnerships between academic scholars and practitioners on the role emotional intelligence plays in excellence.

Goleman is a board member of the Mind & Life Institute, which fosters dialogues and research collaborations among contemplative practitioners and scientists. Goleman has organized a series of intensive conversations between the Dalai Lama and scientists, which resulted in the books Healthy Emotions, and Destructive Emotions. He is currently editing a book from the most recent dialogue on ecology, interdependence, and ethics.

Goleman received a scholarship from the Ford Foundation to attend Harvard University where he received his PhD.