“having no emotion is as much of a flaw as too much emotion.”
by wesley middleton
middleton raines llp
several years ago a trusted advisor of mine and consultant to our firm, bill reeb, pulled me aside and handed me a book, “emotional intelligence.” he said to me (my paraphrasing of his words), “wes, you are a great leader, but your ceiling is your emotion. you are confusing your emotion with your passion and justifying your emotion as passion.”
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wow. what a wakeup call. let me be clear, the following post is not intended to be an interpretation or summary of the book “emotional intelligence.” it is a firsthand account of how i used what i read and then implemented.
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