With this in mind, instead of exclusively focusing on your conventional intelligence quotient, you should make an investment in strengthening your EQ (Emotional Intelligence), MQ (Moral Intelligence), and BQ (Body Intelligence).

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And just as with IQ and EQ (emotional intelligence), some people naturally have more CxQ than others.

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When it comes to emotional intelligence (EQ), there is no excuse for mediocrity.

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Despite the knocks that he has taken from the Mexican press and the elites for not appearing to be book-smart, he has more than his share of "EQ" -- emotional intelligence.

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It wasn't so long ago that we were supposed to develop our workplace "EQ"--that's Emotional Intelligence--and before that, to remember our Myers-Briggs personality type. (Now was it "ExtrovertedIntuitive FeelingPerceiver" or "Introverted Sensing Thinking Judger"?) Corporate America, it seems, has an unappeasable hunger for the newest, hottest management concepts--all of which, on closer examination, appear eerily similar.

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It is good that business schools are thinking about EQ measures, says Daniel Goleman, a leading psychologist in the field of emotional-intelligence.

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