As much as 80% of adult "success" comes from EQ.

True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.

Leaders with empathy do more than sympathize with people around them: they use their knowledge to improve their companies in subtle, but important ways.

Teachers need to be comfortable talking about feelings. This is part of teaching emotional literacy - a set of skills we can all develop, including the ability to read, understand, and respond appropriately to one's own emotions and the emotions of others.

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.

Companies in the East put a lot more emphasis on human relationships, while those from the West focus on the product, the bottom line. Westerners appear to have more of a need for achievement, while in the East there's more need for affiliation.

As much as 80% of adult "success" comes from EQ.