The role of emotional intelligence in business and career success

The most interesting point in this video occurs near the beginning.  Given a pool of people selected for IQ / intelligence the variable most determinate in success is emotional intelligence.  The relatively obvious reason for this is because that is relatively constant in a pool skimmed off of the upper percentiles.  Engineering is top 5% academic performers leaving that variable relatively a compressed variable.  A relatively compressed variable is a fancy way of saying constant.