Published on Jun 27, 2016
In the late 1990s, Daniel Goleman, author of the bestseller "Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ," launched a culture change in the way companies evaluate performance. Since then, emotional intelligence has gained prominence alongside IQ as a measure of success, especially for managerial positions. Psychology scholar Katie Schlegel and Stéphane Côté, a human resource management professor, discuss how the concept's legitimacy is once again up for debate.