Empathic, emotionally intelligent work environments have a good track record of increasing creativity, improving problem solving and raising productivity.

Emotional self-awareness is the building block of the next fundamental emotional intelligence: being able to shake off a bad mood.

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

The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication.

The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response.

Great leaders, the research shows, are made as they gradually acquire, in the course of their lives and careers, the competencies that make them so effective. The competencies can be learned by any leader, at any point.

Emotional self-control-- delaying gratification and stifling impulsiveness- underlies accomplishment of every sort