Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #8617 in Books
• Published on: 2002-06-06
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

Synopsis
As business reinvents itself at broadband speed, what makes leaders effective has inevitably been transformed. Old assumptions and old modes no longer hold; a new style of leadership that works has emerged amidst the chaos of change. This new leader excels in the art of relationship - the singular expertise which the changing business climate renders indispensable. Excellence is being defined in interpersonal terms as companies have stripped out layers of managers, as corporations merge across national boundaries, and as customers and suppliers redefine the web of connection. Daniel Goleman argues that emotionally intelligent leaders are now "must-haves" for business. Many readers have been left with "So now what do I do?" and "The New Leaders" aims to answer that question by laying out the map for transforming leadership in individuals, in teams and organizations.

Customer Reviews

This is Primal Leadership, so don't buy them both
This is a very good book. It's uncannily like Primal Leadership. In fact, it's the same book. The publisher, inexplicably, given the power of the title 'Primal Leadership', called it 'The New Leaders' for the UK market. So, I'm only posting this to say don't mistakenly buy it twice under its different titles...

Goleman's best book yet - start here!
Goleman's latest book is his best yet. It's considerably more compact and readable than the rather sprawling "Working With Emotional Intelligence", and his model of EI has now become more coherent.

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
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.