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… from emotional intelligence at work

Newsletter 67 : 23 april 2012

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Greetings
Welcome to our newsletter. We offer a change from other newsletters which do demand an awful lot of reading, and hope you will find it diverting.

What’s the relationship between stress and performance?

Here’s an article by Daniel Goleman, no less, on ‘The sweet spot for achievement’

Birthday quotations of the week

—There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so
Hamlet

—Be bloody, bold and resolute
The witches’ advice to Macbeth

William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright. Tradition has it he was born on 23 April 1564 (he was christened 26 April 1564), d 23 April 1616

This is broken

Why are so many things broken? Why do people (even us, perhaps) do things at work which are just unhelpful to other people? Seth Godin’s presentation is very funny, but it makes important points about customer service and relationships with your client. (dur 20:07)

How does emotional intelligence inform music?

How does emotional intelligence inform music? Here’s a 2010 video of Jeremy talking to Dave Harries on Corinium Radio touching on a variety of subjects including how emotional intelligence relates to his parallel career in music. (dur: 7:27)