Merve Emre on emotional intelligence as corporate control (Re-release)

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🗓️ 31 December 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

It's been 25 years since the concept of emotional intelligence exploded onto the scene. Cultural critic Merve Emre makes a bold case that in the wrong hands, it can be used to exploit people. We unpack the surprising roots of emotional intelligence, how it's been co-opted as a form of corporate control and why you might want to rethink some of your core assumptions about emotions at work. This episode originally aired on June 8, 2021.

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0:00.0	Gina's a muncher.
0:02.3	Jackson Nippler.
0:04.5	Lucy likes to linger.
0:08.1	But not for too long.
0:10.2	And Harry?
0:11.9	Thank you, Harry.
0:13.5	Mikado is the crunchy biscuit stick dipped in smooth milk chocolate
0:17.3	and makes other biscuits look so ordinary.
0:20.3	Mikado is deliciously Moorish.
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0:26.4	Grab a pack in your local store today.
0:28.5	Find Macardo in the biscuit aisle.
0:31.0	Claire worked in the marketing department for an up-and-coming artisan bakery.
0:35.9	Unfortunately, the artisan bakery in question was so up and coming.
0:40.9	Nobody actually knew it existed.
0:43.5	But then she had the really good idea to use Canva to create a business plan.
0:48.5	It looked good, really, really good.
0:51.9	Their investors thought so too.
0:54.1	And now their hotcakes are selling like, well, exactly.
0:58.9	Thanks, Canber.
1:01.3	The future is unpredictable at times,
1:04.5	but the Open University are the experts in online learning,
	...

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