Quote

Empathic, emotionally intelligent work environments have a good track record of increasing creativity, improving problem solving and raising productivity.

Daniel Goleman

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Daniel Goleman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: March 7
Author
Journalist
Psychologist
Researcher
Writer
Chinatown
Stockton
Records
Emotionally
Environment
Increasing
Problem
Raising
Work
Empathy
Empathic
Good
Track
Environments
Intelligent
Solving
Record
Productivity
Creativity
Improving

More quotes by Daniel Goleman

Image
Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.
Daniel Goleman
Image
When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions.
Daniel Goleman
Image
....goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the service of a goal, whether it be building a business, solving an algebraic equation, or pursuing the Stanley Cup.
Daniel Goleman
Image
There is a newly coined word in the English language for the moment when the person we're with whips out their BlackBerry or answers that cell phone, and all of a sudden we don't exist. The word is 'pizzled': it's a combination of puzzled and pissed off.
Daniel Goleman
Image
Doggedness depends on emotional traits - enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks - above all else.
Daniel Goleman
Image
What seems to set apart those at the very top of competitive pursuits from others of roughly equal ability is the degree to which, beginning early in life, they can pursue an arduous practice routine for years and years.
Daniel Goleman
Image
Women, on average, tend to be more aware of their emotions, show more empathy, and are more adept interpersonally. Men on the other hand, are more self-confident and optimistic, adapt more easily, and handle stress better.
Daniel Goleman
Image
Gifted leadership occurs when heart and head--feeling and thought--meet. These are the two winds that allow a leader to soar.
Daniel Goleman
Image
Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information easier and faster than ever.
Daniel Goleman
Image
Like secondhand smoke, the leakage of emotions can make a bystander an innocent casualty of someone else's toxic state.
Daniel Goleman
Image
Whoever has the mind to fight has broken his connection with the universe. If you try to dominate people you are already defeated. We study how to resolve conflict, not how to start it.
Daniel Goleman
Image
True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.
Daniel Goleman
Image
For the High Achievers, Studying Gave Them The Pleasing, Absorbing Challenge of Flow Percent of the Hours They Spent as It.
Daniel Goleman
Image
The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them.
Daniel Goleman
Image
A leader tuned out of his internal world will be rudderless one blind to the world of others will be clueless those indifferent to the larger systems within which they operate will be blindsided.
Daniel Goleman
Image
Whenever we feel stressed out, that's a signal that our brain is pumping out stress hormones. If sustained over months and years, those hormones can ruin our health and make us a nervous wreck.
Daniel Goleman
Image
Green is a process, not a status. We need to think of 'green' as a verb, not an adjective.
Daniel Goleman
Image
Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.
Daniel Goleman
Image
Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy - a set of skills we can all develop, including the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to one's own emotions and the emotions of others.
Daniel Goleman
Image
Simply paying attention allows us to build an emotional connection. Lacking attention, empathy hasn't a chance.
Daniel Goleman