Primal Leadership

Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, Annie McKee

People catch their leader's emotions the way they catch a cold. Great leaders manage their own inner state first, then deliberately create resonance in the group.

The book that established "emotional intelligence" as the core of leadership, arguing that a leader's mood is contagious and that the primal task of leadership is to drive the collective emotions of a group in a positive, resonant direction.