Psychology

Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect

Much attention of psychologists around neglect focuses on physical neglect. Likewise, in academic literature, the word “neglect” is used in tandem to form the phrase “emotional abuse and neglect.” However, as noted by the author, emotional neglect by itself is not directly discussed much (at all?) in the academic literature. Perhaps this occurs because of it is a diagnosis of omission – that is, it’s something that doesn’t happen with significant results. In this self-help…

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Leadership Management-Business

The Socially Intelligent Project Manager: Soft Skills that Prevent Hard Days

Many technical people speak negatively about soft skills as if hard skills are the only things required for professional success. However, especially in the realm of management, people skills can make or break projects. Keeping people happy means making lives function. How can we leverage making people naturally cheery towards the productive growth of projects? Wasson directly addresses these questions in this business book. So-called “emotional intelligence” came into vogue through Daniel Goleman’s book in…

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