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“While most people recognize that a leader’s mood plays a significant role in any organization, emotions are often seen as too personal or unqualified to talk about in a meaningful way.” However, research in the field of emotions has yielded keen insights that explain the powerful role of emotions in the workplace sets the best leaders apart from the rest. This idea is illustrated in the book “Primal leadership: realizing the power of emotional intelligence,” written by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee, published by Harvard Business School Press 2002. The book talked about the different types of leadership such as visionary, coaching, affiliative, democratic, pacesetting, and commanding. As could be seen, all of these styles related to the emotions such as: (1)visionary; built resonance by moving people toward shared dreams, (2)coaching; connected what a person wanted with the organization’s goals, (3)affiliative; created harmony by connecting people to each other, (4)democratic; valued people’s input and received commitment through participation, (5)