Everyone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, happiness, or virtue, but until "Emotional Intelligence, we could only guess why. Daniel Goleman's brilliant report from the frontiers of psychology and neuroscience offers startling new insight into our "two minds"--the rational and the emotional--and how they together shape our destiny.
Through vivid examples, Goleman delineates the five crucial skills of emotional intelligence, and shows how they determine our success in relationships, work, and even our physical well-being. What emerges is an entirely new way to talk about being smart.
The best news is that "emotional literacy" is not fixed early in life. Every parent, every teacher, every business leader, and everyone interested in a more civil society, has a stake in this compelling vision of human possibility.

These poignant and relevant dialogues, held just a few months prior to the attacks of September 11, 2001, forcefully put to rest the misconception that the realms of science and spirituality are fundamentally at odds with one another. Questions such as "Why are rational and intelligent people often at the root of destructive behavior? "and "How can the emotions that produce violence be controlled?" are the basis of these dialogues between the Dalai Lama and a select group of Buddhists, Western psychologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers who gathered together to elucidate, understand, and combat destructive emotions. Estos dialogos relevantes y profundos que tuvieron lugar pocos meses antes de los atentados del 11 de septiembre, desacreditan la idea falsa de que la ciencia y la espiritualidad no pueden existir juntas. Preguntas como "Por que personas aparentemente racionales e inteligentes se portan destructivamente?" y "Como pueden controlar las emociones que conducen a impulsos violentos?" son los temas de este dialogo entre el Dalai Lama y un selecto grupo de eruditos budistas, psicologos occidentales, neurocientificos y filosofos, reunidos para dilucidar, comprender y combatir las emociones destructivas.

Arguing that consumers and manufacturers share the responsibility for a cleaner and healthier environment, this eloquent and timely discussion urges the former to balance the market toward designs, ingredients, and technologies that reflect their ecological sensibilities, while exhorting the latter to modify their industrial processes on the basis of their environmental impacts. Such steps would foment a radical transparency where products are concerned and make all of the parties in the global marketplace active players in determining the course of the planet and societal well-being. "Manteniendo que los consumidores y los fabricantes comparten la responsabilidad para un medioambiente mas limpio y sano, esta discusion elocuente y de gran actualidad urge a los primeros a balancear el mercado hacia disenos, ingredientes y tecnologias que reflejan sus sensibilidades ecologicas, mientras que exhorta a los ultimos a modificar sus procesos industriales tomando en cuenta sus consecuencias ambientales. Tales pasos fomentarian una transparencia radical de productos y convertirian a todos los grupos en el mercado global jugadores activos en determinar el curso del planeta y el bienestar social."