13. On Emotional Intelligence & Servant-Leadership

This episode is a solo episode, exploring the connection of Emotional Intelligence and Servant-Leadership.
In this episode, we break down some popular misconceptions of emotional intelligence, move towards deeper understandings of the term, and explore how fostering greater emotional intelligence might allow us to more greatly fulfill the Best Test of Servant-Leadership.
Robert Greenleaf’s Best Test of Servant-Leadership asks: “Do those served grow as persons? Do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants? And what is the effect on the least privileged in society? Will they benefit, or at least not be further deprived?”
I hope you leave today’s episode with some additional characteristics of what servant-leadership might look like, and how those characteristics might be actualized out in the world and developed through fostering greater emotional intelligence.
Further Reading:

• Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
• The EQ Edge by Steven Stein and Howard Book
• Leadership Reckoning by Thomas Kolditz, Libby Gill, and Ryan Brown
• Practicing Servant Leadership, edited by Larry Spears and Michele Lawrence
• "What Makes A Leader?" by Daniel Goleman
• "Leadership That Gets Results" by Daniel Goleman
• "The Boss Factor" by Terra Allas and Bill Schaninger
• "What Matters More For Entrepreneurship Success?" by Jared Allen, Regan Stevenson, Ernest O'Boyle, Scott Seibert
• Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl

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