Measuring Emotional Intelligence

Everyone must always remember that even if a person or a professional individual has a high IQ or high grades; that does NOT necessarily mean that he/she is going to be successful in his personal , professional or business career; consequently, the book by Drs. Simmons is an excellent eyeopener to achieve a more lasting success in life, and also remember that it takes a few months (12-36) months to modify the bad habits learned during chidhood or adolescense; and that through REPETITION (replacing old bad habits by NEW good habit) one can modify the weaknesses of our bad habits; and also by being more open to good companionships, with good and positive attitudes and also it helps to be in good terms with GOD, to be able to transcend and endure in this hard battle of survival. I recommend this book and we hope that higher education also teaches and pays more attention to books like this, because if one goes to an institution of high learning , one is supposed to be given also the proper tools to be higher (emotionally) to be able to survive the ups and downs of life; so this should be a pre-required book in College and Master and Doctoral programs all over the world, and not only knowing the contents of emotional Intelligence, BUT putting them into practice, because it does NOT help too much just to memorize the contents of the book , if the person continues being mean to himself {auto-destructive (conscious or un-consciously)} or to others; in this respect , everybody should practice daily what this book teaches, in order to be able to achieve what Psychologist E.Fromm recommends from psychology : to be able to overcome the unreal ILUSIONS that we have about ourselves , and also to be able to overcome the distortions that we have of OTHERS; and this can be achieve raising our Emotional Intelligence following the methods given in this book . I hope that my comments have been of service to your readers.END

I read the book looking for a way to measure character. Some years ago, Lee Iococca wrote that "there was no way to measure the fire in a person's belly". The Simmons Survey and other tools provided by the company do just exactly that. It helps to identify square pegs who might be in round holes.There is nothing worse than putting a person in a position where they are likely going to fail just because we as managers and leaders are too lazy to make an effort to prevent this.....or use false economies in budgeting to not provide funds to accomplish this purpose.This book might be organized to "flow" a little better, but, its contents explain character and how it can be measured very well.

After reading Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman I have purchased every book I could find that claimed to measure or improve emotional intelligence. All were worthless or some consultant had quickly developed something that would supposedly help one measure or make improvements. Measuring Emotional Intelligence is the only one I have found that indicates they have been doing for twenty years what Goleman wrote about 2 or 3 years ago. I found it helpful and easily digested. I would recommend it to anyone who would like to make improvements in their lives either at work or home.