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WHY
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE?
Today nearly everybody knows about emotional intelligence. Well, at least most everyone has
heard that term. Emotional intelligence is today a pretty regular offering in organization as
business has been discovering that it is not sufficient to have smart and talented people on board,
they also need to have some basic emotional intelligence. In fact, the more a business involves
customers, teams, management, leadership, etc. the more emotional intelligence is needed.
Why is this so? Why has emotional intelligence become popular and what is it all about? The
bottom line is that as a person can be intellectually smart and know all kinds of things, if a person
is not smart about oneself, one’s emotions, managing those emotions effectively, using one’s
emotions to connect with others in healthy ways, etc., then one’s I.Q. will be less effective than it
could be. E.Q. (emotional quotent) is about being smart about people and about yourself as a
person.
