“Having no emotion is as much of a flaw as too much emotion.”
By Wesley Middleton
Middleton Raines LLP
Several years ago a trusted advisor of mine and consultant to our firm, Bill Reeb, pulled me aside and handed me a book, “Emotional Intelligence.” He said to me (my paraphrasing of his words), “Wes, you are a great leader, but your ceiling is your emotion. You are confusing your emotion with your passion and justifying your emotion as passion.”
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Wow. What a wakeup call. Let me be clear, the following post is not intended to be an interpretation or summary of the book “Emotional Intelligence.” It is a firsthand account of how I used what I read and then implemented.
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