Who Needs Emotions?
Many leaders believe that maintaining focus and staying task-oriented are the only requirements for performance excellence. They do not believe that managers need emotional intelligence. They insist that there is no room for emotions in the workplace and that people should leave their hearts at home. And maybe you are among those managers. Today’s research shows, however, that the managers who decry the validity of emotional intelligence are the very ones who lack it. They are the managers whose team members will not succeed at collaboration nor will they deal well with change in the workplace. If you are that type of manager, you cannot move on to emotional intelligence until you recognize the effects of emotions on daily activities and use this knowledge to draw the best from your people. If you have no other motivation, consider that 80% of job applicants put themselves on the job market—whether or not they ultimately attain better salaries or positions—because there was a personal
