Optimal

How to Sustain Excellence Every Day

By: Daniel Goleman, Cary Cherniss

Narrated by: Mike Lenz

Brought to you by Penguin.

In his groundbreaking bestseller Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman revolutionized how we think about intelligence. Now, he reveals practical methods for using these inner resources to more readily enter an optimal state of high performance and satisfaction.

There are moments when we achieve peak performance: an athlete plays a perfect game; a business has a quarter with once-in-a-lifetime profits. But for every amazing day, we may have a hundred ordinary and even unsatisfying ones. Fulfilment doesn’t come from isolated peak experiences, or elusive ‘flow’ states, but rather from many consistent good days. So how do we sustain performance, while avoiding burnout and maintaining balance?

In Optimal, Daniel Goleman and Cary Cherniss reveal how emotional intelligence can help us have a productive day, any day – to consistently work at your ‘optimal’ level. Based on decades of research on how hundreds of people build the inner architecture of having a good day, they sketch what an optimal state feels like, and show how emotional intelligence holds the key to our best performance.

Optimal will equip you to become a highly effective leader and enable you to build an organizational culture that empowers workers to sustain high performance

‘Actionable tools and insights that are essential to unlocking your potential’ Oscar Munoz, former CEO of United Airlines

©2024 Cary Cherniss & Daniel Goleman (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Good boom to listen to

I like Daniel Goleman
He is simple, his thoughts are organized
Nothing new here..but good ideas shared in good sequence

I recommend reading it.

An unfortunate delivery by the narrator.

The narrator delivers the text in a most STATIC style, completely oblivious to the cadence required to appeal to presentation for ‘the ear’ (and the scholarly writing of the author).

I wonder how the unappealing delivery passed the notice of the author, the sound engineer and the producer, tasked with producing a quality performance!

I took a hit on the purchase of this audio book, fatigued by Audible’s increasing pushback when a welded-on consumer DARES TO ATTEMPT TO RETURN a download that did not meet muster.

I suggest you spend ZERO $$$$ with Audible (in relation to this author’s work) and go to YouTube to enjoy, first hand, encounters with the author, instead.