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Making Sense of Emotional Intelligence

Malcolm Higgs Β· 2002
65/100
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Higgs and Dulewicz offer a genuinely structured EI framework with self-assessment tools, and the book has earned real traction in UK organizational psychology circles. But it is a dense academic text from 2002 aimed squarely at HR professionals and management researchers β€” not a book for general readers curious about emotional intelligence. If you work in organizational development and want a foundational EI reference, it has value; otherwise Goleman's work covers the same territory with far more readability.

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