Emotional Capitalists

Emotional Capitalists
Author: Martyn Newman
Publisher: Wrightbooks
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2007
Genre: Communication in management
ISBN: 9780731405640

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Research has told us that to be successful in our personal and professional lives we need emotional intelligence (EQ). In this book, Martyn Newman shows us how to get it and use it to achieve extraordinary results. Based on ground-breaking psychological research with some of the world’s most successful young business leaders, Newman identifies the seven dynamic emotions that set these exceptional men and women apart. He then uncovers the psychological building blocks that drive outstanding performance and provides the clearest blueprint yet for systematically building your EQ and leadership skills. Packed with psychological insights and practical strategies, Emotional Capitalists: The New Leaders is a handbook for a new generation of leaders -- emotional capitalists.

Emotional Capital

Emotional Capital
Author: Kevin Thomson
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001-05-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781841120980

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In Emotional Capital, Thomson illustrates the real-life impact of a fired-up workforce on financial performance and shows how to manage and leverage knowledge and emotion to drive positive change and lasting business success.

Emotional Capital

Emotional Capital
Author: Kevin Thomson
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2001-03-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781900961622

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In Emotional Capital, Thomson illustrates the real-life impact of a fired-up workforce on financial performance and shows how to manage and leverage knowledge and emotion to drive positive change and lasting business success.

Bots and Beasts

Bots and Beasts
Author: Paul Thagard
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 307
Release: 2021-10-19
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 026236588X

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An expert on mind considers how animals and smart machines measure up to human intelligence. Octopuses can open jars to get food, and chimpanzees can plan for the future. An IBM computer named Watson won on Jeopardy! and Alexa knows our favorite songs. But do animals and smart machines really have intelligence comparable to that of humans? In Bots and Beasts, Paul Thagard looks at how computers ("bots") and animals measure up to the minds of people, offering the first systematic comparison of intelligence across machines, animals, and humans. Thagard explains that human intelligence is more than IQ and encompasses such features as problem solving, decision making, and creativity. He uses a checklist of twenty characteristics of human intelligence to evaluate the smartest machines--including Watson, AlphaZero, virtual assistants, and self-driving cars--and the most intelligent animals--including octopuses, dogs, dolphins, bees, and chimpanzees. Neither a romantic enthusiast for nonhuman intelligence nor a skeptical killjoy, Thagard offers a clear assessment. He discusses hotly debated issues about animal intelligence concerning bacterial consciousness, fish pain, and dog jealousy. He evaluates the plausibility of achieving human-level artificial intelligence and considers ethical and policy issues. A full appreciation of human minds reveals that current bots and beasts fall far short of human capabilities.

The Emotional Logic of Capitalism

The Emotional Logic of Capitalism
Author: Martijn Konings
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2015-05-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0804794502

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The capitalist market, progressives bemoan, is a cold monster: it disrupts social bonds, erodes emotional attachments, and imposes an abstract utilitarian rationality. But what if such hallowed critiques are completely misleading? This book argues that the production of new sources of faith and enchantment is crucial to the dynamics of the capitalist economy. Distinctively secular patterns of attraction and attachment give modern institutions a binding force that was not available to more traditional forms of rule. Elaborating his alternative approach through an engagement with the semiotics of money and the genealogy of economy, Martijn Konings uncovers capitalism's emotional and theological content in order to understand the paradoxical sources of cohesion and legitimacy that it commands. In developing this perspective, he draws on pragmatist thought to rework and revitalize the Marxist critique of capitalism.

Emotional Capitalists

Emotional Capitalists
Author: Martyn Newman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2009-08-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0470687231

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Building your emotional capital might be your best investment ever. This book shows you how to build emotional capital in your organisation and turn emotional intelligence in to value. We have long been aware that to be successful in our professional and personal lives we need emotional intelligence. In this book, Martyn Newman shows us how to get it and use it to achieve extraordinary results. Based on ground breaking psychological research with some of the world's most successful young business leaders, Newman identifies the seven dynamic emotions that set these leaders apart, uncovers the psychological building blocks that drive outstanding performance and provides the clearest blue print yet for systematically building your EQ and leadership skills. "Daniel Goleman convinced us emotional skills were vital: Martyn Newman tells us how to build them." —Bill Pheasant, Senior Journalist The Australian Financial Review "Read this book today so that you can put it to use tomorrow. You will thank yourself for doing so." —Jim Kouzes, bestselling author of The Leadership Challenge "Every once in a while a book appears that isn't just informative, it's inspiring, fun to read and life changing. Emotional Capitalists - The New Leaders is one of those rare books." —Daniela Sfameni, Global Head Human Resiource Development for Allianz Global Investors Group "This book is an exciting, brand new guide for developing leadership in both personal and professional life ... it distils the most important elements of effective leadership and provides practical explanations and strategies for seeing immediate results. I highly recommend it." —Steve Arthurson, Director, Capability Development, Foster's Group

The Dark Side of Emotional Labour

The Dark Side of Emotional Labour
Author: Jenna Ward
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2015-10-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134094159

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The Dark Side of Emotional Labour explores the work that the rest of society would rather not think about, the often unseen work that is emotionally disturbing, exhausting, upsetting, and stigmatising. This is work that is simultaneously undesirable and rewarding, work whose tasks are eschewed and yet necessary for the effective function of individual organisations and society at large. Diverse and challenging, this book examines how workers such as the doorman, the HR manager, the waiter and the doctor’s receptionist experience verbal aggression and intimidation; how the prison officer and home carer respond to the emotions associated with physical violence, and; how the Samaritan, banker and veterinarian deal in death and despair. It also considers how different individuals develop the emotional capital necessary to cope with the dark side of emotional labour, and how individuals can make sense of, and come to take satisfaction and pride in, such difficult work. Finally, the book considers what is to be done with darker emotional work, both in terms of the management and care of those labouring on the dark side. Challenging and original, this book gives a voice to those who undertake the most demanding work on our behalf. It will be of interest to researchers and students of organisation studies and its related fields, and to every one of us who is called on to work or manage on the Dark Side.

Class Work

Class Work
Author: Diane Reay
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2023-05-12
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000938506

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This text looks at the ways in which women as mothers are positioned in society in terms of ethnicity, social class and marital status. Using case study material the author expands her assessment to analyse the way women's educational experience influences their involvement in their children's schooling. The book examines the support of the mother in her child's schooling to reveal the part she plays in social reproduction and to recognize her centrality to an understanding of social class. The book should be of interest to undergraduates in the sociology of education, gender studies, and to those studying PGCE primary education.

Cold Intimacies

Cold Intimacies
Author: Eva Illouz
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2013-04-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0745658075

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It is commonly assumed that capitalism has created an a-emotional world dominated by bureaucratic rationality; that economic behavior conflicts with intimate, authentic relationships; that the public and private spheres are irremediably opposed to each other; and that true love is opposed to calculation and self-interest. Eva Illouz rejects these conventional ideas and argues that the culture of capitalism has fostered an intensely emotional culture in the workplace, in the family, and in our own relationship to ourselves. She argues that economic relations have become deeply emotional, while close, intimate relationships have become increasingly defined by economic and political models of bargaining, exchange, and equity. This dual process by which emotional and economic relationships come to define and shape each other is called emotional capitalism. Illouz finds evidence of this process of emotional capitalism in various social sites: self-help literature, women's magazines, talk shows, support groups, and the Internet dating sites. How did this happen? What are the social consequences of the current preoccupation with emotions? How did the public sphere become saturated with the exposure of private life? Why does suffering occupy a central place in contemporary identity? How has emotional capitalism transformed our romantic choices and experiences? Building on and revising the intellectual legacy of critical theory, this book addresses these questions and offers a new interpretation of the reasons why the public and the private, the economic and the emotional spheres have become inextricably intertwined.

Gender Capital at Work

Gender Capital at Work
Author: K. Huppatz
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2012-10-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137284218

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Drawing on interviews with nurses, social workers, exotic dancers and hairdressers, this book explores the processes involved in producing and reproducing gendered and classed workers and occupations.