To quote the immortal words of John C. Maxwell, “everything rises and falls on leadership”. Emotional intelligence is such a fundamental requirement for executive management such that without it their performance will be greatly stunted. Managing people and resources requires specific skillsets that enables productivity and profitability because the decisions that are taken on critical issues have immediate and future impact on the fortunes of the organisation.

Being emotional is one thing, being emotionally intelligent is another thing altogether. Many leaders fail to realise that many decisions are made from a place of emotions and if those emotions are not educated, the dysfunction and chaos that will be unleashed in the workplace is better imagined. Executive management especially has to come to terms with its ability to interact with the subordinate levels of leadership in a cohesive manner via the agency of emotional intelligence.

In this episode, we explored some reasons executive management of organisations should apply emotional intelligence to drive peak performance in the organisation they lead.