In Focus, Psychologist and journalist Daniel Goleman, author of the #1 international bestseller Emotional Intelligence, offers a groundbreaking look at today’s scarcest resource and the secret to high performance and fulfillment: attention.

Combining cutting-edge research with practical findings, Focus delves into the science of attention in all its varieties, presenting a long overdue discussion of this little-noticed and under-rated mental asset. In an era of unstoppable distractions, Goleman persuasively argues that now more than ever we must learn to sharpen focus if we are to survive in a complex world.

Goleman boils down attention research into a threesome: inner, other, and outer focus. Drawing on rich case studies from fields as diverse as competitive sports, education, the arts, and business, he shows why high-achievers need all three kinds of focus, and explains how those who rely on Smart Practices—mindfulness meditation, focused preparation and recovery, positive emotions and connections, and mental “prosthetics” that help them improve habits, add new skills, and sustain greatness—excel while others do not.

The path to your professional success starts with a critical look in the mirror.

If you read nothing else on managing yourself, read these 10 articles (plus the bonus article “How Will You Measure Your Life?” by Clayton M. Christensen). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles to select the most important ones to help you maximize yourself.

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself will inspire you to:

• Stay engaged throughout your 50+-year work life
• Tap into your deepest values
• Solicit candid feedback
• Replenish physical and mental energy
• Balance work, home, community, and self
• Spread positive energy throughout your organization
• Rebound from tough times
• Decrease distractibility and frenzy
• Delegate and develop employees' initiative

La clef du succès, voire du bonheur ? C'est l'attention, bien plus importante que le QI. Apprenez donc à l'améliorer en pratiquant une bonne gymnastique du cerveau.

Il y a quelques années, avecL'Intelligence émotionnelle, Daniel Goleman nous faisait découvrir le rôle éminent des émotions. Aujourd'hui, c'est sur l'importance cruciale de l'attention et la priorité à lui accorder qu'il insiste.


Téléphone portable, ordinateur, tablette... Soumis à un déluge continuel d'informations, nous sommes de plus en plus enclins à nous éparpiller. Or les plus récentes recherches sur le cerveau prouvent le caractère fondamental que présente notre capacité à se focaliser (sur soi, sur les autres, sur le monde...) pour mener une vie meilleure. C'est cette faculté sous estimée qui nous permet d'accomplir au mieux d'innombrables autres opérations mentales : comprendre, mémoriser, apprendre, organiser de bons rapports avec autrui... Encore faut-il savoir la reconnaître sous ses trois formes complémentaires :
• La focalisation intérieure, qui correspond à la conscience de soi, nous met en phase avec nos intuitions et nous permet de mieux prendre nos décisions.
• La focalisation vers autrui nous donne les meilleures chances de persuader notre entourage et suscite l'empathie nécessaire aux collaborations fructueuses.
• La focalisation extérieure nous aide à mieux naviguer dans le vaste monde, après avoir compris les forces qui le régissent.


Comment acquérir ces facultés ? Daniel Goleman donne les clefs pour entraîner son cerveau à demeurer attentif, de la même façon qu'on entretient ses muscles par une gymnastique adéquate. Une pratique intelligente de développement qui peut à la fois nous rendre plus performant et plus heureux.

In his defining work on emotional intelligence, bestselling author Daniel Goleman found that it is twice as important as other competencies in determining outstanding leadership.

If you read nothing else on emotional intelligence, read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We’ve combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you boost your emotional skills—and your professional success.

This book will inspire you to:

• Monitor and channel your moods and emotions
• Make smart, empathetic people decisions
• Manage conflict and regulate emotions within your team
• React to tough situations with resilience
• Better understand your strengths, weaknesses, needs, values, and goals
• Develop emotional agility

This collection of articles includes: “What Makes a Leader” by Daniel Goleman, “Primal Leadership: The Hidden Driver of Great Performance” by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee, “Why It’s So Hard to Be Fair” by Joel Brockner, “Why Good Leaders Make Bad Decisions” by Andrew Campbell, Jo Whitehead, and Sydney Finkelstein, “Building the Emotional Intelligence of Groups” by Vanessa Urch Druskat and Steve B. Wolff, “The Price of Incivility: Lack of Respect Hurts Morale—and the Bottom Line” by Christine Porath and Christine Pearson, “How Resilience Works” by Diane Coutu, “Emotional Agility: How Effective Leaders Manage Their Negative Thoughts and Feelings” by Susan David and Christina Congleton, “Fear of Feedback” by Jay M. Jackman and Myra H. Strober, and “The Young and the Clueless” by Kerry A. Bunker, Kathy E. Kram, and Sharon Ting.