Self-awareness is the bedrock of emotional intelligence. It enables you to see your talents, shortcomings, and potential. But you won’t be able to achieve self-awareness through personality tests or quarterly feedback alone.

This book will teach you how to understand your thoughts and emotions, how to persuade colleagues to share what they really think of you, and why self-awareness will spark more productive and rewarding relationships with your employees and bosses.

This volume includes the work of:

Daniel Goleman

Robert Steven Kaplan

Susan David

Tasha Eurich

HBR’s Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.