Harvey Deutschendorf

Harvey Deutschendorf is an emotional intelligence expert, author and speaker. To take the EI Quiz go to theotherkindofsmart.com. His book The Other Kind Of Smart, Simple Ways to Boost Your Emotional Intelligence for Greater Personal Effectiveness and Success has been translated into four languages. You can follow him on Twitter @theeiguy.

Harvey Deutschendorf

This is why you should hire a military veteran

If you are overlooking veterans, you are missing out on these skills.

4 ways to secretly teach your boss to become more emotionally intelligent

Sometimes it isn’t someone’s fault that they are a bad boss. Here’s how you can manage up.

7 ways to show emotional intelligence in a job interview

It’s one of the top job skills of the future, but how do you convey something intangible like EQ in a job interview?

Six emotionally intelligent habits to make work less lonely

Here’s what managers and ordinary colleagues can do on a daily basis to curb loneliness in the modern workplace.

4 emotionally intelligent HR policies employees may suffer without

When team members face crises in their personal lives, they need to know their employers have their backs–in word and in deed.

5 times having low emotional intelligence can sabotage your career

People who excel at managing interpersonal dynamics are more likely to get promoted. Unfortunately, the reverse is also true.

5 Emotionally Intelligent Habits For Handling Work Frustrations

It’s all about what you do in the moment–and don’t do.

5 Ways Unfamiliar Experiences Sharpen Your Emotional Intelligence

If you can make getting out of your comfort zone a regular habit, you’ll be able to hone a few crucial “soft skills” your success may depend on.

Landed A Last-Minute Job Interview? Avoid Asking These 7 Questions

It’s easy to slip up when you’re stressed and haven’t had time to prepare. Here’s an “anti-checklist” of questions to stay away from.

5 Habits That Let Emotionally Intelligent People Adapt To Anything

The ability to stay flexible and open-minded in uncertain times isn’t just a personality thing. It also depends on what you do.

7 Situations Where Vulnerability Is The Best Management Strategy

“Vulnerability” still sounds like a squishy abstraction to many, but it can be a powerful tool in emotionally intelligent managers’ toolkits.

Introvert Or Extrovert, Successful Entrepreneurs Share These 5 Traits

No matter how their personalities appear to others, entrepreneurs all possess a few key, inner characteristics.

This Is The Emotionally Intelligent Way To Fire Someone

Feelings will run high, so don’t try to block them out. Here’s how to make room for emotions and still accomplish the task at hand.

Five Simple Tips For Building A More Emotionally Intelligent Team

There’s no single hack for improving your team’s collective emotional intelligence. As a manager, it’s the small habits you perform and encourage that ripple outward.

Do These 5 Emotionally Intelligent Things Within 5 Minutes Of Meeting Someone

Being instantly likable isn’t rocket science, but this checklist takes practice to master in the short space of a first impression.

This Is How Emotionally Intelligent People Vacation

You’ll be doing some people-watching and self-reflection anyway while you kick back. Why not make it count?

Emotional Intelligence Is The Real Secret To Getting Promoted Faster

Your technical skills probably won’t secure you that management role, but these seven habits might.

Six Reasons Why Your Argument Failed To Persuade

Stop trying to win a war of ideas and do this instead.

Six Job Interview Questions You Should Have Asked (Much Earlier)

It’s partly which questions you ask, and partly when you ask them.

The Idiot’s Guide To Networking, No Work Experience Required

What can you possibly talk about when you’re only in an entry-level job–or looking for one? Wrong question.

Ideas

Can connecting beehives to the cloud save pollinators?

How food banks are taking on the growing world hunger problem

Paul Allen’s new machine learning center for impact is figuring out what poachers will do next

Entertainment

Shonda Rhimes, “highest-paid showrunner” in TV, wants women to demand what they deserve

LeBron James on Blaze Pizza and how it’s the key to understanding his own brand strategy

The network effect

Co.Design

Being born in the wrong ZIP code can shorten your life

Ikea’s extremely chill new collection just hangs out on the floor

Write people up for their design crimes with this ticket book

Fast Company

Is it possible to have work-life balance?

The Hilton Effect: The hotel looks back on its trillion-dollar global impact

The New York Times is cutting its online price, but there’s a catch