When he lost his temper, he lost the ability to have a positive impact on that project. Check out this excerpt from the paper “Measuring Emotional Intelligence: Development and Validation of an Instrument”. Further, those high on emotional intelligence are even-tempered (Sosik & Megerian, 1999), not irritable or verbally hostile. When anger is counterproductive in a situation, and an individual continues to behave with irritability and hostility, low emotional intelligence is being displayed (Mayer & Salovey, 1995). Hit the pause button, and display your emotional intelligence for all to see.

Source: Forbes March 28, 2018 22:41 UTC