Never Eat Alone
So I finally got the chance to get to this book in my reading list, “Never Eat Alone” by Keith Ferrazzi. Keith has a very powerful writing style… no bs, no subtleties, no time wasted in long eloquent sentences. Just straight to the point, and plain straight talk. Keith managed to grab my attention from [...]
Social Intelligence and Leadership
Daniel Goleman is a nationally known psychologist and author of books on emotional and social intelligence. He argues that good leaders have at least four characteristics to help them cope with the world. Two (self awareness and managing emotions) deal with the emotional intelligence of the individual leader and his or her ability to deal [...]
Daniel Goleman on Compassion
Daniel Goleman, author of Emotional Intelligence, asks why we aren’t more compassionate more of the time. Sharing the results of psychological experiments (and the story of the Santa Cruz Strangler), he explains how we are all born with the capacity for empathy — but we sometimes choose to ignore it. About Daniel Goleman: Daniel Goleman [...]
The Web’s Secret Stories
Jonathan Harris wants to make sense of the infinite world on the Web — so he builds dazzling graphic interfaces that help us visualize the data floating around out there. Here he presents “We Feel Fine,” a project that scours blogs to collect the planet’s emoti(c)ons, and the “Yahoo! Time Capsule,” which preserves images, quotes [...]
