Primal Leadership

According to Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie Mckee’s article “Primal Leadership: The Hidden Driver of Great Performance,” it is an investigation designed to look at how leader’s emotional intelligence drives performance. It has been proved that leader’s mood is quite literally contagious, spreading quickly and inexorably throughout the business. Therefore, emotional leadership is the common description to the success leader. Let me summarize about why moods aren’t always discussed in the workplace, how the brain works to make moods contagious, and what you need to know about CEO disease.
Firstly, mood feels too personal, so it won’t be discussed too often in workplace. Any conversation about an executive’s mood might be construed as an invasion of privacy. However, Alice Isen has been conducted that an upbeat environment fosters mental efficiency, making people better at taking in and understanding information, at using decision rules in complex judgments, and at being flexible in their thinking. Thus, when leader is in a happy mood, the people around him will view everything in a more positive way. Secondly, a scientific research has been showed that our mood rely on connections with other people. Our emotional center is lies on open-loop nature of the brain’s limbic system. It can easily change our physiology and emotions depend on external sources. As a result of employees usually take their emotional cues from boss.
Thirdly, we can call CEO as doctor because CEO’s mood has the greatest impact on performance. Employees often suffer from CEO disease which they always guess they have been ignorance. However, the truth is CEO always second-guessing; people don’t tell leaders the whole truth.
Fourthly, there are five-step processes based on brain science to improve the emotional intelligence capabilities most closely linked to effective leadership. It is begin with imagining the ideal self and then coming to real self. The next step is