First read short 24 page book (Morton, W. (2012). Everything You Need to Know About Emotional Intelligence & Leadership.) Book is attached in file.

1. Your First Essay Assignment is to write a 5 page essay based upon the following questions about the book’s concepts below. You MUST Number each answer to each question before writing the essay response answering it. This helps me to know each question you are answering. :

• What is the author’s definition of emotional intelligence (EI)?Does the author define this concept well?
• Do an internet search for a few articles discussing and defining emotional intelligence.
• Compare Wendy Morton’s E-Book explanation and definition versus your three or more articles’ explanations and definitions of emotional intelligence (EI).
• Explain the author’s description of the relationship between leadership and emotional intelligence (EI).
• Identify and describe at least 3 major points the author makes about the relationship between leadership and emotional intelligence (EI)?

1. Read, and reference on your article citation reference page, these articles and compare the similarities and differences, cite each article–at least three—in your essay.
2. Specifically write in quotes the definitions each article gives.
3. In comparisons, how well does Morton’s definition compare to these other three definitions of emotional intelligence?
4. Of the four definitions, which is the best for your understanding of EI?

2. Your Second Essay Assignment is to write a 5 page essay based upon the following questions about the book’s concepts below. You MUST Number each answer to each question before writing the essay response answering it. This helps me to know each question you are answering. :

You’ll need to review this book AGAIN to answer the following questions correctly:

• What is the author’s definition of ‘intelligence’?
• Go to Wikipedia and look up ‘Theory of Multiple Intelligences’ by Howard Gardner.
  • List and briefly define all of Gardner’s multiple intelligences given to you by Wikipedia.
  • Notice that our book’s author only listed a few of Gardner’s intelligences. Which were not listed?
  • Which of Gardner’s multiple intelligences apply directly to the concept of emotional intelligence as described in our book’s author?
• There are three theories of EI discussed in this book. Each of these theories and theorists described three approaches to defining and measuring EI: ability-based, trait-based, and mixed-based (mixture of traits and abilities).
  • Explain the difference between ability-based, trait-based, and mixed-based approaches to defining and measuring EI?
  • Which approach appears to you the make the best approach?
  • Which approach appears to you to be most practical in terms of its use in the real world of organization management and the workplace?
• What are the main limitations of emotional intelligence the author describes?
• In terms of author’s description of ‘resonance’ and dissonance’,
  • Describe, explain the meaning of these concepts?
  • Explain how ‘resonance’ relates to leadership effectiveness.
  • Explain how ‘dissonance’ relates to leadership effectiveness..

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