A person’s authority is not only measured in the workplace and in relationships with colleagues, but also in private life, at school, in sport, in the family and even as a couple. Being a leader means stimulating enthusiasm and positive feelings in who is around us. It means knowing how to stimulate, how being appreciated, how to involve and fascinate. Despotism is not necessary and skills and competence are not enough – The prerogative of leadership has, in fact, an emotional nature. In this book – not a simple management manual, but an engaging research on human intelligence – Daniel Goleman explains how being a leader is not simply a matter of mind and how a leader actually needs empathy, sensitivity and creativity and flexibility. These characteristics are not the privilege of a few, but they represent the hidden potential inside each of us. You just have to learn to recognize and train them.