CONNECTION; ANALYTICAL BOOK REVIEW

CONNECTION; ANALYTICAL BOOK REVIEW

The author of primal leadership explores the application of emotional intelligence in the business world. The author further explains why emotions are a primal part of how brains operate and why emotions are prime to effective leadership. The author discusses the competencies of emotional intelligence, leadership styles, and their implementation to develop a positive emotional environment that fosters creativity. The author emphasizes on how business leaders can use emotional intelligence to assist them in managing and influencing the behavior of their clients. Furthermore, the principles described in the book are useful in academic learning and mostly used by medical colleges, businesses, and professional coaches. Therefore, managing human relationships plays a crucial role in the sustainability of the human platform that enhances profit and productivity. For example, the author states that “when people feel good, they work at their level best (Goleman, Boyatzis and McKee 2013).”

The author states that emotions are a basic concept of the job environment, and hence individuals cannot separate themselves from the emotions. Enthusiasm and passion are significant elements of the leadership process to all people at all levels of the organization. Primal leadership applies uniformly to the organization as a body and shows emotional maturity. Moreover, it perceives the organization as a body other than an individual in isolation from society (Goleman, Boyatzis, and McKee 2013). The authors view leadership as a group function as opposed to that of an individual. An individual leader can support the leadership process through their emotions. The authors claim that emotional intelligence can be studied by analyzing associated emotional competencies classified into four categories, which include self-awareness, social awareness, relationship management, and self-management.

Besides, the author narrates that emotional intelligence can be demonstrated through different styles of leadership. For instance, Affiliative, coaching, pacesetting, democratic, commanding, and visionary. The authors state that commanding and pacesetting skills are applied in specific cases, and should be administered cautiously. However, the author recommends the use of a democratic leadership style in a business environment. For an organization to meet its aims and objectives, good leaders use various suitable styles in people and relationship management  (Goleman, Boyatzis, and McKee 2013). The book provides actionable steps to learning in five discoveries, which include the ideal self meaning where change starts, the real self where one needs to remain aware of their vision. Additionally, a learning agenda meaning the need to establish improvement plans around one’s imagination, reconfiguring the brain and the power of relationships, which refers to the people who assist an individual in being the ideal self.

The book brings out essential insights that are helpful to leaders in different sectors in running their activities, for example, encouraging workers to embrace change and accept which are associated with organizational learning needs other than depending on performance. The book also helps business managers to try out new behaviors that can contribute and nurture relations that will assist in developing growth and motivating change. The author provides various biological studies that outline how people create an understanding of a situation and decide how to react or respond to them. The study challenges the notion that leaders are born and proves that leaders can be created through intentional learning. Moreover, old behaviors can be changed, and emotional intelligence is acquired. More importantly, the book explores the more in-depth understanding of the application of emotional intelligence concepts in leadership and life. Enthusiasm and passion that lead people in an organization are associated with the human spirit.

Bibliography

Goleman, Daniel, Richard E. Boyatzis, and Annie McKee. 2013. Primal Leadership, With A New Preface By The Authors: Unleashing The Power Of Emotional Intelligence. Harvard Business Press.