Winning Every Time - How to Use the Skills of a Lawyer in the Trials of Your Life

At a time when daily news headlines scream of competitive college enrollments, skyrocketing tuition, campus violence, alcohol and drug abuse, and other campus scandals, the former president of The George Washington University tells it like it really is.

Educated at Columbia, Yale, and Harvard universities, with a membership in Phi Beta Kappa, more than fifteen honorary doctorates, four books, and numerous published articles, Stephen Joel Trachtenberg is one of the leading voices in American higher education. Here he brings his thirty years of experience, wisdom, and wit to reveal what goes on behind the scenes in the difficult and rewarding challenge of running a university. Using wonderful anecdotes from his own life, Trachtenberg explains with compassion and his trademark humor the insight he has gained from the halls of learning.

For parents who will write big checks to send their sons and daughters to college, for businesspeople of all kinds looking for leadership lessons, and for anyone invested in America's system of higher education, this book is a major work about the importance of sustaining our nation's natural brain trust.

Over the past decade, a small revolution has taken place at some of the world's leading universities, as they have started to provide free access to undergraduate course materials--including syllabi, assignments, and lectures--to anyone with an Internet connection. Yale offers high-quality audio and video recordings of a careful selection of popular lectures, MIT supplies digital materials for nearly all of its courses, Carnegie Mellon boasts a purpose-built interactive learning environment, and some of the most selective universities in India have created a vast body of online content in order to reach more of the country's exploding student population. Although they don't offer online credit or degrees, efforts like these are beginning to open up elite institutions--and may foreshadow significant changes in the way all universities approach teaching and learning. Unlocking the Gates is one of the first books to examine this important development.

Drawing on a wide range of sources, including extensive interviews with university leaders, Taylor Walsh traces the evolution of these online courseware projects and considers the impact they may have, both inside elite universities and beyond. As economic constraints and concerns over access demand more efficient and creative teaching models, these early initiatives may lead to more substantial innovations in how education is delivered and consumed--even at the best institutions. Unlocking the Gates tells an important story about this form of online learning--and what it might mean for the future of higher education.

Why are some people more successful than others? Why do those deemed intellectually intelligent just drift in life and waste away their potential, while those who are not academically superior turn out to be bigwigs with considerable power and influence in their work and personal life?

Apparently, intellectual intelligence is not the only indicator for personal success. Not all who are genius or have superior IQ can be successful in this life.  Emotions, volitions, intuitions and perceptions give a bigger picture to how well you can achieve goals and attain success.

People with high emotional intelligence possess a wide range of abilities, including social skills, emotional skills and intellectual skills that all combine in exactly the way required to make them stronger persons.  They possess the skills needed to overcome setbacks and failures. They possess the sensitivity to manage and express emotions to nurture healthy relationships. In short, they have what it takes to make it big in this life.

Emotional intelligence, EI or EIQ as it is otherwise known, is the ability to recognize other people’s feelings and difficulties. Further to identifying and understanding the emotions and difficulties, EQ also provides the competency to be able to act accordingly to overcome the problem and meet the goal.

At the workplace, EQ is what leads you to give superior job performance. In life, EQ is what drives you to become an achiever. In love and relationships, EQ is what makes you open-minded, approachable, thoughtful and sympathetic to acquaintances, friends and love ones.

This book will provide an introductory overview of the value of emotional intelligence for work and for life. The information here will give you a general idea of:

·         How our emotional brain works
·         The components of emotional intelligence
·         EI strategies for self-awareness
·         The 5 key skills
·         Exercises to develop your EI
·         Exercises to strengthen your team’s EI

Emotional intelligence says a lot about our self-potential to achieve and succeed in work and life.  While we need intellectual aptitude we also could do with social and emotional skills to find balance in life so that we can reach our best possible potential!