I disagree with your comment to Kelly that emotional intelligence is far more important than intellectual intelligence. It may be consider more important in some aspects, but far more important? – No way, everything must be in balance.

Quoting Jack Welch’s belief ‘because you can learn all the “technical” skills on the job’. This really is rubbish. How would you feel if you were treated by a doctor who says I’m learning on the job, or the plumber who going to fix your pipes by learning on the job on your time. Technical skills are meant to be studied as is emotional intelligence, after all isn’t that what is going on here in this article ?

Jack Welch is hardly the gospel when he managed to strip GE down to a shell. I think you may have misquoted him here.

Apart from that it was a good article and appreciated, especially for the link to Daniel book.

Kelly

I’ve known a few IQ geniuses as well and I have not found any correlation between them and low EQ. Likewise for those non IQ geniuses – no correlation. I think you are making a generalisation along the lines of the stereotype nerds.

I could argue that I have come across people who are supposed to have high EQ and yet don’t seem to be able to actually do anything for themselves in life. I don’t consider one to be greater than the other, but rather a balance of the two will work well.

liked point-10 Adaptability …without which all the other

becomes not of much use….. thanks for the great

post….looking forward to more of such blogs…..

I just want to encourage people to try a little TaiChi. Because of the amount of concentration involved, many consider it to be a “moving meditation”. Couple that with the numerous documented benefits and you have an amazing practice that can benefit everyone… try it! (You can find a school at the World Tai Chi Day website: http://worldtaichiday.org/)