Dr Martyn Newman PhD - Pendulum Summit Wisdom Series

And if you went to the school I went to, they'd never heard of carrots. Some of you went to that same school. What an extraordinary idea. And Dan Goldman comes out, he says, it's not sticks, it's not carrots, it's not your intellect alone that drives your potential. He says, I'll tell you what it is, he said, it's values. When you tap into the things that people feel, the things they deeply care about in the deepest parts of their being, you release inside people this most remarkable creative energy to achieve extraordinary things. Now, I had lunch with Dan a few months ago in London and I suggested to him that at the time he made some extraordinary big claims in that book and the science had only just got going. And I want you to imagine what's it look like 20 years later? Emotional intelligence. So imagine if I wheeled in here today and we'd stop the conference. We're not going to hear from any more speakers for the next two days. I'm going to wheel up here every single piece of published literature that's been published in good peer reviewed journals over the last 15 years that has examined forensically the relationship between these emotional intelligence skills and outstanding human performance, and particularly leadership performance. And I was to distribute it all to you and give you highlighters and we were to spend the rest of the conference reading this. And if it was to do that, you'd have to read at least 117 high quality scholarly articles. And that doesn't include unpublished doctoral dissertations. If we put them into the mix, and some of them are this fact, you'd have 141 pieces of research. And for the next two days we highlighted the findings of this research and we came together tomorrow afternoon to summarize our findings. Let me tell you what you'd find. 10 skills.