One of the better books I have read this year. It's to the point and won't drive you crazy with abstract theories or overly technical neuroscience like a lot of other related books will. Overall the topic of this book is interesting and provides you with detailed information about the topic without going too far off the scientific deep end. The strategies included in the book are simple yet effective and can be implimented into everyday life.

This is the first applied emotional intelligence book that I am reading. It has its pros (clarity and simplicity of content) and some cons (excessive self-promotion).

Cons
1. Open the book and you are hit with several pages of endorsements from well-known people. Hard to miss the Dalai Lama's one as it is the first.

Further on, particularly towards the end of the book, it's evident that the authors could have practised some self-restraint in mentioning their company- the name-dropping is excessiv More...

I found the book to be a real eye-opener for me. I didn't realize how much emotions play into every decision or situation I encounter, and that I can learn to control my emotions. If you like books like Strengths Finder 2.0 you will enjoy this one.

I was given this book as part of my companies tem building workshop. I hesitantly read it on the plane and am really glad I did. Once I started reading the book I couldn't put it down. The book just makes sense.

The book makes a strong case for why emotional intelligence is important on the job using data from real organizations. My favorite part is the third chapter where it displays what a person with high EQ sounds like and what a person with low EQ sounds like. I could swear my boss was one More...

Overall, not a bad book. For each of the four parts of emotional intelligence, the authors list several techniques for improving that particular trait. Thankfully, and unlike most books of this type, the techniques are short and sweet. There is nothing worse than reading a 400 page book with only 50 pages of interesting information and 350 pages of anecdotal fluff about Floyd from Wisconsin and how he changed his life with the book's techniques. There's none of that here. There is the occasional More...

Loy Machedo’s Book Review – Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry & Jean Greaves

Just think about this.

You have a recommendation from The Dalai Lama, Newsweek, The Washington Post, Newsday, Ken Blanchard and Marshall Goldsmith. And then to top it all, you have a foreword by (Ouch!) Patrick Lencioni himself!

Now do you need any other reason to be convinced why you should buy this book?

Wait! Don’t.

Before you decide to purchase this book, read the rest and only then decide.

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"Emotional Intelligence 2.0" is the second edition of a soft skills/career development book. Your EQ (emotional quotient) is the foundation for a large number of soft skills including flexibility, time management, trust, anger management and change tolerance. The book focuses on four areas: self awareness, self management, social awareness and relationship management. Each is illustrated with a scenario showing a good and bad example.

The book comes with an online test. It was basically two page More...

This book is unlike any I've ever come across in it's ability to enable me to do great things. The book states that it has a single purpose--increasing my EQ--and it accomplished this without a hitch. How? It has a self-contained, step-by-step, program that was customized to my score profile after I went online and used the included passcode to access an emotional intelligence test. I learned which areas where holding me back and which of the book's 66 strategies would increase my emotional inte More...

I was ready to purchase the authors' previous book on the topic of emotional intelligence (EQ) but a reviewer suggested I look at this one. I agree and highly recommend this 2.0 edition as well. I am very familiar with emotional intelligence but have had trouble finding the time and methods to put it into practice. Like the authors said, "Knowing about EQ and putting it to work are two very different things."

This book combines the two elements of knowledge plus the practical skills you need to More...

This is a valuable book for personal development. It presents information we all should know, yet so often do not (or do not apply like we should). I'm a teacher and feel this topic should be included in the curriculum in some form or another, so that we wouldn't end up so deficient in emotional intelligence as adults. It's incredibly difficult to deal with people who aren't self-aware, and it's a shame the way we all let our emotions get the better of us.

I recommend this book to get you starte More...

First, I should say that I learned the hard way to not buy this book used. There is a passcode enclosed in a sealed envelope in the back of the book that you need to access the online emotional intelligence test. I bought my first copy used and, naturally, the code had already been used so I couldn't take the test until I bought another, new copy. Nevertheless...

I am a lead-counselor for an interim group home for at-risk children, some with a long record of offenses held against them. In a nut More...

I was given this book as prework for a leadership retreat at my company. They make us read a lot of books this way, and I usually skim them or don't read them at all because I can't get into them. Emotional Intelligence 2.0 broke the mold.

I read it cover to cover twice before the retreat, and I was soaking up good info like a sponge both times. The book makes a strong case for why emotional intelligence is important on the job, and uses data from inside real organizations to show how EQ impacts More...

I was pleasantly surprised to discover that an EQ test accompanies this book. At first, I spent most of my time in the test looking at my feedback report. The online report, which you can also download into PDF, was more than just a bunch of numbers and text. There are flash instructions, movie clips, different features for you to share your report, set and track goals, and a virtual coach that asks you insightful questions about emotional intelligence. The neat thing about the test is that it r More...

I was really surprised by Emotional Intelligence 2.0 because it uses a method I've never seen before in a book (I'll get to that part in a minute). First the book introduces you to emotional intelligence in just the right amount of depth. It explains how emotional intelligence is rooted in the brain (we are wired to be emotional before we are rational), and then it introduces the emotional intelligence skill set, which is:

Self-Awareness
Self-Management
Social Awareness
Relationship Management

T More...

I read the authors' first best-selling emotional intelligence book, and I think that 2.0 is a huge improvement. Here's a chapter by chapter look at why:

-FOREWORD BY PATRICK LENCIONI-
Lencioni is one of those gurus that has sold millions of books, none about emotional intelligence (EQ). As Lencioni proclaims in the foreword, he's no EQ expert, but he sees everyday how critical a skill it is to have and he's so enthusiastic about this book because it's the first he's read that actually shows you More...

The Book Report of Emotional Intelligence 2.0

Unlike other books written by con-artists, which was stuffed with all kinds vomiting stories, this book, however, to some degree, validated and theorized my weird way of thinking, soul-inspecting and self-management of all time.
It legalized the time when I stroll down on campus, with my ear seamlessly cuped by my enormously huge headphone, simultaneously, wandering about in the maze of mind. In sensitive and transient time like puberty and college li More...

Emotional intelligence (EQ) is about effective communication between the rational and emotional centers of the brain. Everything you experience via your senses, must travel via your limbic system (where your emotions are experienced to the front of your brain where you think rationally. Emotional intelligence is your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others, and then use this awareness to manage your behavior and relationships.

In a very short introduction the theories More...

EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE 2.0

Emotional Intelligence 2.0 starts off with an anecdote of a surfer escaping from the hands of a shark. He uses his EQ to wriggle out of the crisis, as per the Authors. The authors go on to differentiate between IQ and EQ. According to them a person high on EQ and average on IQ has a better chance of succeeding in life. This is when compared to a person low in EQ and high in IQ.
Then there is a psychographic inventory which the reader has to take called ‘Emotional Intelli More...

This book is a quick and interesting read. As I tore through it, I found myself thinking hard about what I was reading and finding ways to put the strategies to work in my own life. And EQ really works! Some of the strategies may come across as simple or intuitive at first glance, but they are a challenge for most to practice. Plus, the test results (the book includes an online test) pinpoint which of the strategies YOU need to work on. I found this highly interesting and valuable. The results w More...

Personally I'm shocked that this has earned over four stars.

My EQ came out fairly high, not sure what that was all about, maybe all my recent self discovery, my religious/spiritual beliefs, maybe the many years I spent in the corporate world, and knowing how to answer some of those questions. I just don't know.

There were some very useful suggestions throughout, especially in terms of realizing why it's important to hold back for a moment to let the emotions ride themselves out, while reasoning More...

Worth reading if you haven't read or thought much about this topic, as it is a pretty quick read, clearly organized, and contains nice short examples. I haven't done the "homework" or taken the quiz, which would likely enhance what I could take away from this book-reading experience.

Overall, like another reviewer mentioned, I found it a little too salesy for my taste - as if EQ is the only thing that matters in life and business, with a bit too much self-promo weaved into the book (when I'd pre More...

After I took the emotional intelligence test and recieved my score, I was a little upset that I was merely average in my score. I would like to think I'm above average, but don't we all? One of my professors last semester opened class with the statement "Most if not everyone in this room thinks they are above average, I'm sorry but you are not."

Low and behold there was hope, the coping strategies and techniques provided in this book to help you work on your area of weakness.

While reading the exa More...

I really wish I had read this book in high school and better yet had a course in it. It would have saved me a lot of grief. As a society, we need to teach children how to deal with emotions. I wish I had not taken it out of the library because the code in the back only works for one person. So, I was not able to take the EQ (Emotional Intelligence)test. I may need to buy the book.

I loved it all, but I have picked out my favorite parts of each section:

Self Awareness Strategies:

1. Ask others for f More...

Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is the description of one's ability to regulate emotions and profess other aspects of people skills... seemingly with a weak relationship to Intelligence Quotient (IQ).

Dr. Bradberry's book on said subject encourages self analysis along the lines of self-awareness, self-management, social awareness and relationship management; even bundling an online test to illuminate strengths and areas for development.

Emotional Intelligence 2.0 is a decent introduction to this rapid More...

Overall score: 3.5

Travis Bradberry's little book applies the theory of emotional intelligence to the workplace.

My problem with it? In the back of my mind as I read was this thought: "The people who really need to read this book are the ones who will never pick it up." The more aware someone is that s/he can use some help with relationship management, self-management, self-awareness and social awareness -- even if they're pretty strong in those arenas -- the more likely s/he will be to pick up a More...

I see that I'm a dissenting opinion with 2 stars but I expected a lot more from this book. I was very excited to learn about the concept of Emotional Intelligence as I'm a confessed 'smart person who has trouble holding back on emotions.' I see the logic of EI and firmly believe it is very important for career success. Maybe my expectations were too high?

I bought the book and took the test on-line. I was brutally honest and not surprisingly didn't score so high. I went to the sections of the bo More...

Understanding Emotional Intelligence is a must for today's leaders and emerging leaders. We all need to deepen our personal knowledge of ourselves and find ways to be the best we can be. This book is a quick read and stands on the shoulders of Dan Goleman's work.

Becoming self aware and managing relationships is the work of 21st century leaders. It is a key part of business development and needs to be taught in B-schools as well as all leadership programs.

This book helps us become more aware of More...

Decided to buy it after reading some great comments about it but i was quite disappointed.

I feel like the author used all the well known concepts for self development and such but to the use of emotions management.

My meaning is that he adress the issue of dealing with our emotions through a bunch of strategies you probably seen somewhere else in top 10 list blog articles about managing stress, dealing with conflict, you name it.

So i did not find anything particularly intersting here. It feels l More...

If corporations, the school systems, the jail systems, etc. can adopt this book into their curriculums, I believe it will do wonders for the world. Emotions are all around us every day. We experience emotions as frequently as we breathe. And like breathing, we're sometimes aware of our emotions and sometimes not.

Emotional intelligence has always been the answer, or at least the beginning of one. But, like myself, most busy working people with families do not have the luxury to sit down and read More...

This was such a quick but also very informative read on emotional intelligence. It used examples to clearly illustrate why EQ is important to each one of us. The first section outlines what it is, and how it's different than IQ and personality, then it explains each aspect (there are 4) that make up the EQ. Then the book gives practical ideas to help the reader intentionally address each of the 4 parts of the EQ, to be more aware and to improve. I didn't read too closely these sections since I h More...