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Book Reviews see all articles in this section BookNotes BookNotes is your monthly guide to good, informative reading. Each month BookNotes will feature the Editor's choice of titles. This month our Editor has selected a range of books focusing on the topic of emotional intelligence. Managing Psychological Factors in Information System Work An Orientation to Emotional Intelligence Publisher: Information Science Publishing Author: Eugene Kaluzniacky Emotional intelligence is no longer a new concept, yet systematic research of its impact on IT work has just begun. Eugene Kaluzniacky’s book explains why personality types, cognitive and creativity styles, and emotional intelligence have an impact on IT workers, teams and corporate bottom lines. The author presents the concepts and how they influence specific IT tasks. Backed by solid research, he offers insights and solutions to problems any IT worker or manager can relate to. The book is a tremendous asset for the maturing IT profession and for any serious practitioner in the field. Review by Tatiana Andronache       Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence Publisher: Barnes & Noble Author: Daniel Goleman, Annie McKee, Richard E. Boyatzis Goleman teams with renowned EI researchers Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee to explore the role of emotional intelligence in leadership. Unveiling neuroscientific links between organizational success or failure and "primal leadership," the authors argue that a leader's emotions are contagious. If a leader resonates energy and enthusiasm, an organization thrives; if a leader spreads negativity and dissonance, it flounders. This breakthrough concept charges leaders with driving emotions in the right direction to have a positive impact on earnings or strategy. Drawing from decades of analysis within world-class organizations, the authors show that resonant leaders - whether CEOs or managers, coaches or politicians - excel not just through skill and smarts, but by connecting with others using EI competencies like empathy and self-awareness. This unforgettable work transforms the art of leadership into the science of results. The Emotionally Intelligent Workplace: How to Select For, Measure and Improve Emotional Intelligence in Individuals, Groups and Organization Publisher: Jossey-Bass Authors: Cary Cherniss and Daniel Goleman How does emotional intelligence go beyond the individual to become something a group or entire organization can build and utilize collectively? The Emotionally Intelligent Workplace is written primarily by members of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations, founded by recognized EI experts Daniel Goleman and Cary Cherniss. This groundbreaking book examines the conceptual and strategic issues involved in defining, measuring and promoting emotional intelligence in organizations. The book's contributing authors share fifteen models that have been field-tested and empirically validated in existing organizations. They also detail twenty-two guidelines for promoting emotional intelligence and outline a variety of strategies for assessing emotional and social competence in organizations.   Intelligence Reframed: Multiple Intelligences for the 21st Century Publisher: Basic Books Author: Howard Gardner Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner has been acclaimed as the most influential educational theorist since John Dewey. His ideas about intelligence and creativity-explicated in such bestselling books as Frames of Mind and Multiple Intelligences have revolutionized our thinking. In Intelligence Reframed, Gardner provides a much-needed report on the evolution and revisions to the theory of multiple intelligences. He offers practical guidance on the educational uses of the theory and responds to the critiques leveled against him. He argues that the concept of intelligence should be broadened. Ultimately, argues Gardner, possessing a basic set of seven or eight intelligences is not only a unique trademark of the human species, but perhaps even a working definition of the species. Gardner also offers provocative ideas about creativity, leadership, and moral excellence, and speculates about the relationship between multiple intelligences and the world of work in the future.     To buy these books, click on the book covers above or visit our comprehensive online bookstore at: www.galtbooks.com www.galtbooks.com has been created with a mission to assist not-for-profit organizations within your community. Proceeds from every sale are donated to the organization of your choice. Click here to learn more. You may wish to submit a book review of your own for inclusion in The Galt Global Review. 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