Title

General Patton and Lieutenant Winters: a contrast in leadership

Authors

Jordon Swain, United States Military Academy
Lissa V. Young, United States Military AcademyFollow

Files

Contributing USMA Research Unit(s)

Behavioral Sciences and Leadership

Publication Date

2018

Publisher

The Case Journal

Document Type

Article

Description

The concept of emotional intelligence (EI) has received an increasing amount of focus in recent years from psychological, sociological and organizational scientists (Côté, 2014). However, while researchers from these various disciplines have endeavored to explain the variance between outcomes of interest (e.g. effectiveness as a leader) and a person’s general mental ability or personality, the way these scientists have conceptualized EI has not always been in complete agreement (Livingstone and Day, 2005). The most popular competing models in existence fall into one of two general categories: ability-based or mixed-model (Mayer et al., 2000, 2008). The ability-based conceptualization of EI views EI as a set of several skills or capacities related to perceiving, understanding, facilitating and managing emotions, and views EI as a classically defined intelligence or aptitude (like traditional IQ). This ability-based conceptualization posits that EI can be developed over time or through training (Van Rooy and Viswesvaran, 2004).

Publisher City

Bingly, United Kingdom

Keywords

Emotional Intelligence, Military Leadership

Volume

14

Recommended Citation

Swain, J. and Young, L. (2018) General Patton and Lieutenant Winters: a contrast in leadership, The CASE Journal, 14(5), pp.541-549.