By integrating recent findings in affective neuroscience and biology with welldocumented research on leadership and stress, we offer a more holistic approach to leadership development....

Excerpt: Most of us have genes that make us as hardy as dandelions: able to take root and survive almost anywhere. A few of us however are more like the orchid: fragile and fickle but capable of blooming spectacularly if given greenhouse care....

The purpose of this study is to empirically test whether it is possible to deliberately develop emotional intelligence (EI) as conceptualized in the Mayer and Salovey model....