Harvard Business Review Everyday Emotional Intelligence

Editor’s Note

This combined edition of HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Emotional Intelligence and the HBR Guide to Emotional Intelligence brings together the definitive ideas that HBR has published on managing an active emotional life at work alongside the most practical articles about how to apply those ideas to yourself, your interactions with your colleagues, and your team.

For the concepts and the research behind emotional intelligence—including Daniel Goleman’s seminal article that first connected the topic to management thinking in the pages of HBR—turn to the Must Reads section of the book. There you’ll learn about the components and competencies that make up emotional intelligence; you’ll also find Goleman’s work on “primal leadership,” research ...