Executive EQ

When this book first hit the stands, no one was considering emotional intelligence to be a factor in who would succeed or fail in business. Instead, the focus was on IQ, academic background, or training knowledge. This book showed that the priorities ought to be reversed, bringing forth research that suggested up to 92% of success in life and work are determined by emotional intelligence, and as little as 8% by previously-touted factors like IQ.

Executive EQ not only changed the paradigm for how to succeed at any ambition, it also championed real-world applications of this knowledge. Cooper puts forth simple, specific ways to increase emotional intelligence and demonstrates how it can be immediately applied to common business goals like earning trust, increasing loyalty, getting referrals, improving ingenuity, intensifying commitment to goals, and following through on execution.

“Filled with insightful counseling. Executives and professionals looking for an understanding of emotional intelligence can find it here.” - The New York Times

“Cooper teaches specific, measurable ways for leaders and teams to succeed at levels we have long considered ‘impossible.” - Eldon McBride, Manager of Executive Education and Development, Boeing Corporation

“This is a path-breaking book that stands out among all of today’s management publications. Executive EQ gives you all of the pieces you need to move your career and organization into a more vital, successful way of doing business in these times of chaos and opportunity.” – Michael Ray, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Stanford University Graduate School of Business