Agility coach and longtime project manager Anthony Mersino presents his take on the importance of emotional intelligence in project management, its history and development, and several techniques for improving your own.

Project management has exploded in popularity as an occupation in recent years.

But what is the important quality for project managers to have? According to Anthony Mersino, it's emotional intelligence, or EQ.

Mersino has been a project manager since the 1980s, and is the founder of Vitality Chicago, coaching teams in Agile and Scrum development frameworks.

In Emotional Intelligence for Project Managers, the author introduces how EQ relates to project management and provides plenty of real-world examples and techniques to hone your skills.

Explicitly aimed at those in the project management field, but wide-ranging enough to appeal to anyone who works with others, this primer ably balances theory, anecdotes, and practical exercises.