Good info, but very, very short
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Bear in mind that, although cheap, this is a booklet - it's 18 pages in all, and which makes it very tiny. Although some of the tips are clever and insightful, it's still a high price for the amount of content. Some of the tips are brief summaries of fairly complex techniques, and don't really give you enough to implement them. It appears to mostly be an advert for the authors training - if you know little about this topic already, this book won't help. It is a potentially useful summary of some basic ideas, however.
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The reason why zero stars should become a rating
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A dreadful pamphlet full of complete nonsense. Absolutely nothing new in this advert for Andy Smith and his EI / NLP ways. Wasn't even good as a background read or for something to fill 3 minutes of time with. Watching paint dry or a bulb blowing would be preferable and more informative. Do not waste your hard earned on this.
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The Wisdom of EI in a nutshell
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This is, without doubt, THE best value for money of any EI/EQ product I've come across. It offers 55 basic tips to help you to develop your emotional intelligence, divided up under the headings used by Goleman in his best sellers on the subject.
Moreover these are 55 genuinely separate tips rather than just variations on a theme. In my opinion, given the time of year and the increasingly stressful conditions many of us have to operate under in the workplace, and often elsewhere, this is a pefect gift for anyone who would like to have more control over the way they live their lives. This would be a bargain if it cost twice as much. At this low price it's an absolute steal!
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This is not about EI
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I disagree with the first reviewer who says that this pamphlet confirms his view that EI is the same as NLP. It certainly isn't, at least the way Goleman discusses it. However this pamphlet certainly is about NLP. It's not about EI at all. Andy Smith is a NLP trainer who seems to be borrowing the term "emotional Intelligence" because it has acquired a certain degree of popularity over the last decade which confirms something in my mind: what is NLP? It's whatever you want it to be. It is a pseudo science veiled in technical terminology to give it a semblance of respectability. There is nothing in here, or in NLP, that any book dealing wth the psychology of motivation or even cognition won't give you. What it does have is all the precious pop-psych language such as "project an energy bubble" and other drivel. Interesting, tip 55 talks about staying true to your self, as long as you maintain rapport. But establishing and maintaining rapport involves trying to imitate the other so that they believe that you are just like them and they like you better. How can you then remain true to yourself? I do believe there is a certian amuont of value in Goleman's original book although I'm not sure if it's worth going down the road of talking of emotion as intelligence. But, at least there's no snake oil.
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EI or NLP?!
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this great little handbook confirmed for me that EI is NLP is another guise . . .there are of course some variations on the theme but the two are so similiar. This handbook is fab for those trying to improve their EI, and do not have NLP techniques to help them. It is also for anyone who have struggled with some of the EI books, since this one is very easy to read and the exercises simply laid out.
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