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Twelve and a Half: Leveraging the Emotional Ingredients Necessary for Business Success

by Gary Vaynerchuk · 2021

USA Today Bestseller In his sixth business book, bestselling author, entrepreneur, and investor Gary Vaynerchuk explores the twelve essential emotional skills that are integral to his life—and business—success and provides… more

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It's incredibly rewarding to earn people's trust, regardless of how much else you've accomplished.
One of the sad things about human nature is that negativity is louder than positivity. It’s been one of the driving forces of my life to make positivity louder.
Optimism is being thrilled about your next at-bat, while acknowledging that you’re not guaranteed to hit a home run.
When you put happiness over money, stock shares, and public admiration, your day-to-day work becomes sustainable over the long haul.
You don’t want what other people want, so why do you care about what they have?
People you meet on the way up, are the people you see on the way down.
When you understand how unimportant business is in the grand scheme of your life, you can get better at it.
If you just wake up on a Tuesday morning and decide you don’t want to go into your business because it’s a gorgeous day outside and you’d rather spend it at the beach, don’t judge yourself for that either.

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USA Today Bestseller

In his sixth business book, bestselling author, entrepreneur, and investor Gary Vaynerchuk explores the twelve essential emotional skills that are integral to his life—and business—success and provides today’s (and tomorrow’s) leaders with critical tools to acquire and develop these traits.

For decades, leaders have relied on “hard” skills to make smart decisions, while dismissing the importance of emotional intelligence. Soft skills like self-awareness and curiosity aren’t quantifiable; they can’t be measured on a spreadsheet and aren’t taught in B-schools or emphasized in institutions. We’ve been taught that emotional intelligence is a “nice to have” in business, not a requirement. But soft skills can actually accelerate business success, Gary Vaynerchuk argues. For analytical minds, it’s challenging to understand how to get “better” at being self-aware, curious,

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First published
2021
Goodreads rating
3.79 (2k ratings)

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