06.2 · 3 March 2026
After emotional intelligence
The practice began where a mentor said emotional intelligence was not the whole picture.
The published account is dated to 2012. Jorge Zuazola was told to look at SQ, spiritual intelligence, because emotional intelligence was not the whole picture. He has written that he was skeptical and that he followed the advice without cutting it down. In November 2016 that reading became this practice in Frankfurt.
Emotional intelligence still describes something real: a room can feel a decision before it can write one. The practice does not deny the feeling. It refuses to stop there. A feeling that never becomes a step is not yet leadership under the line this firm publishes. SQ is the name they kept. Spiritual leadership is the title they say they set aside in order to start.
Readers who want the two phrases to mean the same thing will not be comfortable here. The journal keeps the distinction because the founder’s method was the distinction. Later sheets, on the ladder and on ego, only make sense if that first cut stays sharp.