The New Leaders: Transforming the Art of Leadership

The previous five 'competences' of emotional intelligence have now become four: Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness, and Relationship Management. Motivation has been folded into Self-Management in the new model.

The book is particularly concerned with applying emotional intelligence to corporate leadership - a vital question as teams and organisations tend to take their emotional tone from their leaders.

It includes an inventory of six different leadership styles, from "Commanding" to "Visionary", with their different effects and ideas on when each is appropriate. It also includes Boyatzis' model for self-directed learning (a very useful coaching model), loads of advice for building emotional intelligence in teams and organisations, and what research actually has shown to work in goal setting. The writing style will be familiar to readers of Goleman's previous books - each element of the EI model is illustrated by stories from the business world and lashings of well-sourced scientific and psychological backup.

A welcome innovation is the inclusion of a few helpful "how-to" tips (on, for example, establishing your vision for the future and setting sustainable goals), which have been lacking in previous books.

How good is this book? Well, it finally convinced me to stump up two grand to become an accredited deliverer of the Goleman/Hay Group Emotional Competence Inventory - their 360 emotional intelligence assessment for leaders and key professionals - and I'm very glad I did.


great leadership insights   August 13, 2003
Cheryl Burnside
6 out of 8 found this review helpful

Have been looking for ideas about leaders and how they work. Some of Goleman's ideas are great, and also help understand how American bosses and leaders work based on those he examines. Another good book on American leaders and leadership is "Working with Americans" (Stewart-Allen, Denslow) which was very humourous and one I dipped in and out of often. An important subject and worth watching the Americans since their trends usually end up here in Europe at some point.


Great Stuff!   April 20, 2003
Mad Max (Sussex, England)
22 out of 22 found this review helpful

Having already been introduced to the concepts of Emotional Intelligence (EI), I was recommended to read this book by a colleague and I am glad I did. It is practical, contains real detail about the pros and cons of EI (backed up by scientific research) and some excellent tips for implementing the change within yourself, your team and your organisation! If you have an interest in EI then buy this book.


Really good....   August 25, 2002
13 out of 15 found this review helpful

I've read other leadership books but this was the first one I've read based on EQ that also presented some scientific concepts behind leadership development. More detail on the "how to" for team and organisational level leadership would be great. I really enjoyed it and would recommend it.