Eq And Leadership

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McGraw-Hill, Aug 1, 2006 - Fiction - 385 pages
Emotional Intelligence has become an integral part of how leaders of the day function and respond to challenges. Since leadership is a function of and leadership emotional response, understanding one s emotional strengths and weaknesses can provide the edge to become better leaders. EQ and Leadership, a seminal work by a management expert, brings out the context of emotional intelligence and the underpinnings of leadership. Organized in three parts, the book identifies nine leadership styles and provides insights to leaders, managers and HR heads to be on the learning curve, perpetually.

About the author (2006)

Author Catherine Storr was born in London, England on July 21, 1913 and was brought up in Kensington. She was educated at St. Paul's Girls' School and went on to study English at Newnham College, Cambridge. She then went to medical school and worked part-time as a Senior Medical Officer in the Department of Psychological Medicine of the Middlesex Hospital from 1950 to 1963. Her first book was published in 1940, but was not successful. It was not until the 1950's that her books became popular. She wrote mostly children's books as well as books for adults, plays, short stories, and adapted one of her novels into an opera libretto. She published more than 30 children's books, but is best known for Clever Polly and the Stupid Wolf and Marianne Dreams, which was made into a television series and a film. Catherine Storr died on January 6, 2001 at the age of 87.

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