tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1021937845868914977.post7588733620627116813..comments2011-08-26T09:27:08.394-07:00Comments on EQ in Business: Critical ThinkingAdele B. Lynnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07878625257136745122noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1021937845868914977.post-1189357090983125122009-03-24T08:39:00.000-07:002009-03-24T08:39:00.000-07:00Adele,I can really relate to your comments. I teac...Adele,<BR/><BR/>I can really relate to your comments. I teach a course to analytical quality-management folks on "selling ideas to your boss", and have learned over time that the nexis of this topic is the analytical mindset of engineers vs. the interpersonal and social skills of others, particularly management folks. Most attendees recognize their analytical tendencies and are willing to consider developing complimentary skills (I call these left-hand skills.) I am very much in the "analytical" camp myself, and have come to appreciate the complimentary, left-hand skills only later in my career.<BR/><BR/>This is an exciting area to contemplate, and a challenging one. I know from my own self that there is nothing more stubborn than an analytical skeptic who is dead right about some particular battle, and who is meanwhile losing the war....Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15726814072737419172noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1021937845868914977.post-74776053590965376842009-03-20T10:48:00.000-07:002009-03-20T10:48:00.000-07:00Adele,As an engineer myself, I agree with your obs...Adele,<BR/><BR/>As an engineer myself, I agree with your observations. Engineering schools attract people who tend to be analytic to begin with, and then expose them to more and deeper analysis. For sure, if engineers are challenged, they can develop skills in other directions. The most successful engineers figure it out for themselves.<BR/><BR/>Arthur DavidsonAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04705271369014074668noreply@blogger.com