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There seems to be general consent that Emotional Intelligence (EI) is important. Despite this consensus, there are still many people experiencing poor leadership and management from leaders whose opinions of themselves are distinctly different from those they lead. Tasha Eurich’s research articulated in her book Insight: The Surprising Truth About How Others See Us, How We See Ourselves, and Why the Answers Matter More Than We Think, found that “95 percent of people believe they are self-aware, but the real number is 12 to 15 percent, that means, on a good day, about 80 percent of people are lying about themselves—to themselves.” Positions of leadership seem to make this overconfidence worse. We have a problem then that while most people will verbally agree that EI is important and that studies agree that EI is a positive both for individual success and also for society generally, we are mostly pretty bad at it! More here: https://philduncalfe.substack.com/p/emotional-intelligence

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