Societies Can Be Sunk By The Weight

One Aspect Of A Successful Relationship Is Not Just How Compatible You Are, But How You Deal With Your Incompatibility.

Like Secondhand Smoke, The Leakage Of Emotions Can Make A Bystander An Innocent Casualty Of Someone Else's Toxic State.

There Is A Newly Coined Word In The English Language For The Moment When The Person We're With Whips Out Their Blackberry Or Answers That Cell Phone, And All Of A Sudden We Don't Exist. The Word Is 'pizzled': It's A Combination Of Puzzled And Pissed Off.

Comparing The Three Domains, I Found That For Jobs Of All Kinds, Emotional Competencies Were Twice As Prevalent Among Distinguishing Competencies As Were Technical Skills And Purely Cognitive Abilities Combined. In General The Higher A Position In An Organization, The More Ei Mattered: For Individuals In Leadership Positions, 85 Percent Of Their Competencies Were In The Ei Domain.

Empathy Represents The Foundation Skill For All The Social Competencies Important For Work.