Why Emotionally Intelligent People Are More Successful
We've learned that emotional intelligence (EQ) is a crucial skill for both leaders and employees. But several studies point to just how important EQ can be to success, even trumping IQ and experience....
View ArticleWhy it pays to be a jerk
See Also Smile at the customer. Bake cookies for your colleagues. Sing your subordinates’ praises. Share credit. Listen. Empathize. Don’t drive the last dollar out of a deal. Leave the last doughnut...
View ArticleDonald Trump and the Politics of Fear
People are scared,” Donald Trump said recently, and he was not wrong. Fear is in the air, and fear is surging. Americans are more afraid today than they have been in a long time: Polls show majorities...
View ArticleRule Britannia
Today’s parallel with feudal 1215 is the absolute dominance of a “collective monarchy”, combining the power not merely of the Westminster state but also of the corporate and financial institutions and...
View ArticleThe narcissism of Donald Trump's candidacy
(CNN)Donald Trump's statement in the final Presidential debate that he would leave the nation in suspense over whether he would accept the election result is merely the most recent example of the...
View ArticleElection 2016: How To Win Friends, Influence People And Help Them Taste, Feel...
In the final in a special New Matilda Election 2016 three part series, Dr Lissa Johnson explains the psychology behind why we vote the way we do, and how to create positive change. Week 3 of the...
View Article“Difference,” American-Style: Of High-Horse Riders and Low-Hanging Fruit
Annals of Parliamentary Cretinism: 4 This has been in the works since the get-go. HRC faces a tight race in what ought to be a walkover because she is a lousy candidate and a terrible campaigner, and...
View ArticleBoost Your Emotional Intelligence: Take The Five Day EQ Challenge
"Empathy occurs in the moment one human being speaks with another." - Alfred Adler, Understanding Human Nature We know that Emotional Intelligence can be learned, but like everything there's no quick...
View ArticleA Minority President: Why the Polls Failed and What the Majority Can Do
! The polls failed and the nation needs to know why. 1. The American Majority Hillary Clinton won the majority of votes in this year’s presidential election. The loser, for the majority of voters, will...
View ArticleBusiness Leaders and the Mixed Feelings They Inspire
In the early 20th century, Dale Carnegie began to travel the United States delivering to audiences a potent message he would refine and eventually publish in his 1936 bestseller, How To Win Friends and...
View ArticleEight Things to Know Before Dating An Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurs�are their own breed of boyfriend. Dating�someone�on the precipice of professional life or death is both fantastically enlightening and a huge pain in the ass.�As the great and mighty�Elon...
View ArticleGilles Deleuze and emergence, part 4
Let us trace the trajectory of the lives of two brothers, Fezzy and Frigate, both of whom are from Chow Chow Jungle. This is a tropical location, from which Fezzy is quickly adopted. His adopted...
View ArticleElection 2016: The ABC Of Election Spin ‘Psy-ops’, And How To Fight Back To...
In the second of a three part series on the psychological warfare that pervades our election campaigns, New Matilda columnist Dr Lissa Johnson explores the media’s ‘false balance’, and how to see...
View ArticleThe smug style in American liberalism
There is a smug style in American liberalism. It has been growing these past decades. It is a way of conducting politics, predicated on the belief that American life is not divided by moral difference...
View ArticleChicago International Film Festival lineup announced
ABOVE: “The Last Five Years” stars Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan. | SUPPLIED PHOTO The Chicago International Film Festival today announced its full lineup for the 50th annual cinema extravaganza. In...
View ArticleUnderstanding antisocial personality disorder, part 9
Eysenck (1957, 1967) is one of the more historically important personality psychologists. He argued that the psychopath exhibited an inherited temperamental predisposition towards extroversion and that...
View ArticleAre You Emotionally Intelligent? Here's How to Know for Sure
When emotional intelligence (EQ) first appeared to the masses, it served as the missing link in a peculiar finding: people with average IQs outperform those with the highest IQs 70% of the time. This...
View ArticleFrom Schadenfreude to ringxiety: an encyclopedia of emotions
The sudden urge to kiss someone, the excitement of destroying something … many of these feelings you’ll have experienced without knowing they had a name...
View ArticleThis Idea Must Die: Some of the World’s Greatest Thinkers Each Select a Major...
“To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact,” asserted Charles Darwin in one of the eleven rules for critical thinking known as...
View ArticleSafety Culture Indicators Research Project: A Regulatory Perspective...
(Source: National Energy Board) Table of Contents Background The Safety Culture Indicators Research Project Project participants Project methodology Outcomes: The Suite of Indicators Next steps...
View ArticleDonald Trump: Sociopath?
This week, the co-author of Donald Trump’s autobiography said in The New Yorker that if he were writing The Art of the Deal today, it would be a very different book with a very different title: The...
View ArticleThe Secrets To Acting Confidently In The Face Of Uncertainty
Imagine this: You're driving along an unlit winding road in the darkness, the air so dense with fog, you can't see past your headlights. You grip the wheel, lean in, and drive cautiously ahead, all...
View Article18 signs you have high emotional intelligence
Empathy is one of the most significant gateways to a high EQ. See Also LinkedIn Influencer, Dr. Travis Bradberry, published this post originally on LinkedIn. When emotional intelligence (EQ) first...
View ArticleELECTION 2016: Why People Will Vote For Their Own Destruction, And How To...
The realities of why we vote the way we do are actually more to do with appearance, and less to do with policy. In the shadow of an election, Dr Lissa Johnson explains the psychology behind the polls....
View ArticlePay attention to emotional quotient
Attitudinal change We all have wondered when people with average intelligence quotient (IQ) levels have shown better leadership, sometimes even better than leaders with higher IQ. And then there are...
View ArticleMalcolm Turnbull: ‘Small L’ Liberal Or Planet-Eating Death Star? Early...
Next week, Malcolm Turnbull will clock up six weeks as Prime Minister. So what’s changed? Has the direction changed, or are the messages just a little more polished. Psychologist and New Matilda...
View ArticlePrivate Camelot
From the first, Jackie had declined to meld into the overpowering Kennedy clan, where “Hey, kiddo” was a standard greeting. Jack Kennedy had married late, at age 36, and his family worried that “he’d...
View ArticleUnderstanding dependent personality disorder, part 3
This article is a continuation of our look at Theodore Millon's historical review of dependent and how it has been classified by various psychologists and schools of thought. Aaron Beck and his...
View Article5 Emotional Biases That Are Hazardous To Your Wealth
In our last post, we reviewed five of the most prevalent cognitive biases that trip up amateur and professional investors alike. This particular post is a continuation of that effort, and the third in...
View Article2015-2016 Insurer Annual Assessments (Arizona Department of Insurance)
(Source: Arizona Department of Insurance) NEWS: Insurer annual assessment statements were NOT mailed 7/9/2015 as previously planned. We expect statements will print 7/21/2015 and assessment payments...
View ArticlePresident Trump: Irish writers have their say
While we were sleeping, first we voted into office the ones who watch you drown while very articulately expressing concern; then we tried voting for the ones who kind of like to see you drown. – from...
View ArticleMy President Was Black
“They’re a rotten crowd,” I shouted across the lawn. “You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby I. “Love Will Make You Do Wrong” In the waning days of...
View Article16 Overall Favorite Books of 2016
To look back on any period of reading with the intention of selecting one’s favorite books is a curious two-way time machine — one must scoop the memory of a past and filter it through the sieve of an...
View ArticleThe Irony Effect
Danny Kahneman’s love affair with Amos Tversky began in the spring of 1969, when his dazzling and clever colleague, also a professor of psychology at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, came to give a talk...
View Article“This Crooked System”
Summary I have no hope of getting justice in this crooked system. —Umar Daraz, Karachi, January 2016 How do you expect us to recover stolen items from hardened criminals? Do you think they will agree...
View ArticleMaking the Case
Summary The debate about fully autonomous weapons has continued to intensify since the issue reached the international stage four years ago.[1] Lawyers, ethicists, military personnel, human rights...
View Article“Call Me When He Tries to Kill You”
Map of Kyrgyzstan Summary Gulnara B. and her husband lived together for 15 years before he began brutally attacking her in 2003. One evening in 2012, he returned to their Bishkek home after a school...
View Article11 signs you lack emotional intelligence
If you have difficulty asserting yourself, you may lack emotional intelligence. When emotional intelligence (EQ) first appeared to the masses, it served as the missing link in a peculiar finding:...
View ArticleEmotional Intelligence: Why EI can be more important than IQ
“There’s nothing worse than when you’re not feeling great and someone says, ‘just think positively’,” says Alan Lyons, author, psychologist and managing partner of KinchLyons. “Because that’s just an...
View ArticleTrump and the Pathology of Narcissism
Illustration by Matt Mahurin At 6:35 a.m. on the morning of March 4th, President Donald Trump did what no U.S. president has ever done: He accused his predecessor of spying on him. He did so over...
View ArticleThe Narcissism of Donald Trump
Self-regarding public figures have always been with us. Self-effacement, restraint and empathy normally do not mix with high ambition. Ambition – in one form or another, for self or cause– is a...
View ArticleSystemic Indifference
Summary On April 6, 2015, Raul Ernesto Morales-Ramos, a 44-year-old citizen of El Salvador, died at Palmdale Regional Medical Center in Palmdale, California, of organ failure, with signs of widespread...
View ArticleThe Future of Jobs and Jobs Training
As robots, automation and artificial intelligence perform more tasks and there is massive disruption of jobs, experts say a wider array of education and skills-building programs will be created to meet...
View ArticleSTRATEC reports substantial growth in 2016
INSIGHTS ALONG NEW LINES Annual Report 2016 MISSION STATEMENT As the innovative and technological market leader for automation and instrumentation solutions in in-vitro diagnostics, we seek to offer...
View ArticleWhy Trump Is Not Mentally Fit to Be President
At 6:35 a.m. on the morning of March 4th, President Donald Trump did what no U.S. president has ever done: He accused his predecessor of spying on him. He did so over Twitter, providing no evidence and...
View ArticleIQ or EQ: Which One Is More Important?
In his 1996 book Emotional Intelligence, author Daniel Goleman suggested that EQ (or emotional intelligence quotient) might actually be more important than IQ. Why? Some psychologists believe that...
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