Publisher's Synopsis
"Many industries have, over the last thirty years, gone on to embrace emotional intelli-gence as the attribute that can both predict and achieve superior individual and organiza-tional performance. Emotional intelligence is also key to better physical and mental health, resulting in lower organizational costs from attrition, healthcare, and professional liability. Businesses like Google, Aetna, and Johnson & Johnson have built programs for their entire workforce around enhancing emotional intelligence. Doctors, to whom we lawyers like to compare ourselves, are including EI in medical school admissions and physician training because it promotes both good medical care and physician health. Perhaps no other profession relies so heavily on cognitive intelligence as law. Through changing application requirements, law schools continue to prefer the most logical appli-cants, and they rigorously employ the Socratic method in classrooms to ferre
