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Book Review: Primal Leadership Introduction This book review illuminates the brief summary of Primal Leadership, the analysis of this book, the importance for managers, as well as the most interesting parts of the book. The first part is book summary. It talks about the task, development, and improvement of primal leadership. The second part analyzes book contents from author credentials, rationale, face validity, target audience, reliability, distinctiveness, and practicality. The third part talks that the important for managers to notice not only self emotional intelligence domains but also group’s emotional intelligence competency. The last part indicates, my interesting part, to develop and sustain emotional intelligence value and†¦show more content†¦(Goleman, Boyatzis, amp; McKee, 2004) B. Rationale They wrote this book because of the unprecedented, enormously enthusiastic reader response to the Harvard Business Review articles â€Å"what makes a leader?† and â€Å"leadership that gets results.† They also wanted to help more executives, managers, and workers at companies and organizations around the world. They wrote this book to answer some primal leadership question, for example, what do the benefits of primal leadership affect organization? How do leaders create the emotional climate that fosters creative innovations? (Goleman, Boyatzis, amp; McKee, 2004) The authors believed primal dimension of leadership that leaders could use power of EI management determined whether everything else a leader did would work as well as it could. And many leaders did not know that how to use EI management to make them and their teams successful. This book is legitimate through real example of interviews which indicated the true cases. C. Face validity From the book, the themes are about emotional intelligence competencies of resonant leadership by both the individual and the entire team. I believe the concepts and themes are positive. Not only in work environment but also life world, many people always lack of emotional intelligence competencies. I also agree with theShow MoreRelatedAnalysis Of Daniel Goleman s Primal Leadership 1441 Words   |  6 PagesThe author of Primal Leadership, Daniel Goleman – a former journalist, is an astonishing man that turned the business world upside-down with his great research published in 2001 about emotional intelligence. For decades, Business leaders around the world treated their employees like the military, whereby instructions given were strictly followed and emotional boundaries were set. Employers required their workers to leave their emotions outside before they walked into the workplace. 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