Penguin Optimal.

by Daniel Goleman, Unknown Author

Penguin Optimal ABISBOOK Penguin.

Paperback

About the author

Author of Emotional Intelligence and psychologist Daniel Goleman has transformed the way the world educates children, relates to family and friends, and conducts business. The Wall Street Journal ranked him one of the 10 most influential business thinkers.

Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence was on The New York Times best sellers list for a year-and-a-half. Named one of the 25 "Most Influential Business Management Books" by TIME, it has been translated into 40 languages. The Harvard Business Review called emotional intelligence (EI) “a revolutionary, paradigm-shattering idea.”

Goleman’s new book, Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence, argues that attention — a fundamental mental ability for success — has come under siege. Leadership that gets results demands a triple focus: on our inner world so we can manage ourselves; on others, for our relationships; and on the outer forces that shape our organizations and society itself.

His more recent books include The Brain and Emotional Intelligence, and Leadership: The Power of Emotional Intelligence - Selected Writings.

Reviews

[Nadia Sebaali · Rating 2 out of 5]

Unfortunately, I couldn’t finish Optimal. I made it through roughly the first 80 pages, but I struggled to stay engaged. A lot of the ideas felt quite familiar and, at times, a little cliché, and I didn’t feel like I was learning anything particularly new or gaining additional insight from what I was reading. I kept waiting for the book to offer something that would really grab me or shift my perspective, but instead I found myself increasingly bored. Maybe it becomes more interesting later on, but for me, those first 80 pages weren’t enough to make me want to continue.

[Dennis · Rating 1 out of 5]

Reads like a defense for the authors „positive iq“ concept. a random runthrough of personal and leadership concepts mixed with all well known concepts (flow, marshmallows etc) and always mixing in EQ as „this clearly explains it“. But a simple meta-study research shows that „personality traits“ are the more scientifically researches factors and EQ is more a marketing concept mixing this in one supposedly measurement.

Mixed in are dozens over dozens of small stories (steve jobs, teachers, managers, hbr etc etc) but I was not able to identify the big outline /idea/ concept of the book besides the above mentioned.

Stopped reading after 20 minutes of skimming through.