Optimal

<p><b>Daniel Goleman (Author) </b><br><b>Daniel Goleman</b> PhD author of five <i>New York Times </i>bestsellers is best known for his paradigm-shifting book <i>Emotional Intelligence</i> a global bestseller and has a long-standing interest in meditation dating back to his two years in India as a graduate student at Harvard. His books have been translated into more than forty languages.<br><br><b>Cary Cherniss (Author) </b><br>Cary Cherniss is Professor of Applied Psychology and Director of the Organizational Psychology program at Rutgers University. Cherniss specializes in the areas of emotional intelligence work stress leadership development and planned organizational change</p> <p><b>Bestselling author of <i>Emotional Intelligence </i>Daniel Goleman and co-author Cary Cherniss reveal practical methods for applying the principles of EI to enter an optimal state of high performance offering a roadmap to being at your best every day.</b></p><p><br>There are moments when we achieve peak performance: an athlete plays a perfect game; a business has a quarter with once-in-a-lifetime profits. But these moments are often fleeting and for every amazing day we may have a hundred ordinary and even unsatisfying ones. Fulfillment doesn’t come from isolated peak experiences or elusive ‘flow’ states but rather from many consistent good days. So how do we sustain performance while avoiding burnout and maintaining balance? <br>In <i>Optimal</i> Daniel Goleman and Cary Cherniss reveal how emotional intelligence can help us have a great day any day. They explain how to set a realistic attainable goal of feeling satisfied that you’ve had a productive day — to consistently work at your ‘optimal’ level. Based on research of how hundreds of people build the inner architecture of having a good day they sketch what an optimal state feels like and show how emotional intelligence holds the key to our best performance.<br><i>Optimal</i> is the culmination of decades of scientific discoveries bearing on emotional intelligence. Enhanced emotional intelligence pays off in improved engagement productivity and more satisfying days. In this book you’ll find the keys to competence in emotional intelligence and practical methods for applying this skill set more readily. It will equip you to become a highly effective leader and enable you to build an organizational culture that empowers workers to sustain high performance.<br></p> <p>Emotional intelligence - the ability to accurately perceive understand and manage our own emotions and those of others - is now embedded in our public discourse. It's an idea so pervasive and important in our society that leaders such as Jamie Dimon CEO of JPMorgan Chase and New York City mayor Eric Adams have placed it at the heart of what they do.</p><p><br>Daniel Goleman's bestselling book <i>Emotional Intelligence</i> was the first to coin the term and bring it to a mass audience. Now more than 25 years after it was first published he and Rutgers professor of psychology Cary Cherniss take a fresh look at how emotional intelligence has evolved.<br>Reframing 'EI' as the foundation for performing at our best they provide an essential guide for leaders and managers to:<br>-Manage their emotions and negotiate those of colleagues partners and friends-Increase concentration and encourage flow-Develop self-awareness-Build a sense of purpose-Harness empathy to influence and inspire<br><i>Optimal </i>shows how high performance can be cultivated at every level scaling emotional intelligence from the outstanding individual to top teams and leading organisations in one definitive resource.</p> In the age of AI and machine intelligence <b>emotional intelligence is more important than ever</b> for building a company culture that brings out the best in people and drives success. <b>Anyone leading a team or organization should read <i>Optimal</i></b>—it will open your mind and show you the <b>inner balance </b>and <b>skill set</b> that we all need to face the future. <b>No one has done more to help us understand the applications of emotional intelligence than Daniel Goleman and Cary Cherniss</b>. In <i>Optimal</i> they provide a lively overview of <b>how to use emotional intelligence to optimize the performance of individuals teams and entire organizations</b> synthesizing more than three decades of findings. This book deserves to be studied by managers coaches therapists affective scientists and many others. <b>Powerful and deeply researched</b> <i>Optimal</i><i> </i>offers <b>actionable tools and insights that are essential to unlocking your potential </b>achieving stable success over time building high-performing teams and <b>cultivating the most important leadership quality of all emotional intelligence</b>. From now on when I see a copy of this outstanding book on someone’s desk their stock will have risen in my eyes. <i>Optimal</i><i> </i>describes how emotional intelligence a strong sense of purpose innovation and systems thinking bring us to an optimal state necessary to address our personal organizational and global challenges—<b>essential wisdom</b> for our times. <i>Optimal</i><i> </i>offers<b> a masterclass in emotional intelligence</b> and <b>sustainable high performance</b>. Daniel Goleman and Cary Cherniss skillfully combine c<b>utting-edge research engaging examples and practical insights</b> that are both illuminating and actionable. Their expertise has been invaluable in helping us develop emotionally intelligent and EPIC leaders at Amazon—ones who lead with <b>empathy purpose inspiration and connection. This book is a must-read for anyone seeking to enhance their leadership skills </b>relationships and overall success—both professionally and personally.