EQ is short for emotional intelligence. It's some of the most important life skills.
I've been reading NO ORDINARY TIME about Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt and the war years. Goodwin writes so much about their inside life, and what other's impressions were.
It takes a great deal of emotional intelligence to lead people well. Of course Roosevelt was one of the greatest leaders we have had. Listen to what Goodwin wrote about Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
Through the worst days, Roosevelt remained calm. He followed the course of the attack on the wall charts in his map room, watching comberly as the red pins, signaling German forces, multiplied, forcing the green pins, signaling the United States, into a full retreat. Yet not once, Marshall marveled, did he seek to interfere in any with with [General] Eisenhower's command; not once did her force the Joint Chiefs to explain hos this disaster had been possible. He had relied on these men through the entire war, and he would continue to rely on them now. "In great stress," Marshall declared, "Roosevelt was a strong man."
Roosevelt's steadiness in the midst of the crisis kindled gratitude in Stimson as well. "He has been extremely considerate," Stimson recorded in his diary. "He has really exercised great restraint, for the anxiety on his part must have been very heavy."
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