Emotional Intelligence : Emotional Intelligence is the ability to identify and manage your own emotions and the emotions of others. It is generally said to include three skills: 1) Emotional awareness, including the ability to identify your own emotions and those of others 2) The ability to harness emotions and apply them to tasks like thinking and problem solving 3) The ability to manage emotions including the ability to regulate your own emotions, and the ability to cheer up and calm down another person. Role of Emotional Intelligence in Career Success - Understanding the role emotional intelligence plays in career satisfaction will benefit organizations and individuals interested in high potential employees. Goleman (1998) asserts that emotional intelligence, not IQ, predicts workplace success. Emotional Intelligence may even be more important than general mental ability for determining career success. According to Mayer etc al 2001, individuals need to be able to identify their emotions as well as emotions of others. According to IBM's 2012 survey, over 1700 CEO say their two top needs are COLLABORATION and CONNECTING with customers - these are both driven by emotional intelligence. Research shows that people with higher emotional intelligence earn higher evaluations from their supervisors - and are overall more successful. Career builder Survey :71%of employers say they value emotional intelligence over IQ. Recent research shows that EQ spurs creativity by fostering vigour and generosity and helps employees successfully navigate organisational politics. "EQ has twice the power of IQ to predict performance. EQ is also better predictor than employee skill, knowledge, or expertise". - Gerald Mount "Leadership's first commandant : know Thyself". Evaluating high performers, 7 out of 10 factors that distinguish Star Managers were tied to emotional intelligence and only 3 to technical skills and conventional intelligence. In a study of Para rescue jumpers US Air Force saved 190 million dollar by selecting candidates based on emotional intelligence.