Getting All Emotional at Google Topic: Emotional intelligence?

As the number-one company on Fortune’s Best Company to Work For list for six straight years, Google must be doing something right! Actually, it does many things right! One thing that you might be surprised at is a self-improvement course (one of many) that’s offered to Google’s employees. The course, first offered in 2007, is called simply Search Inside Yourself (SIY). And it’s so popular that thousands of Googlers are on waiting lists to take the course!

SIY was developed by a Google engineer, Chade-Meng Tan. Tan has been around Google from almost the beginning—he was Google employee No. 107. His current work position carries the title “Jolly Good Fellow,” and his job description ...

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