The book explores the startling facts about the effects of our interpersonal relationships. Its most fundamental discovery is that we are designed to be social, constantly engaged in a `neural ballet' that connects us brain-to-brain with those around us. Far more than we are consciously aware, our daily encounters with parents, spouses, bosses and even strangers shape our brain and affect the cells in our body. The effect percolates down to the level of our genes for good or bad. Our reactions to others, and theirs to us, have a far-reaching biological effect, sending out cascades of hormones that regulate everything from our hearts to our immune systems, making good relationships act like vitamins and bad relationships like poisons. This book leads us to rethink about some of the fundamental areas of organizational behavior and consequently human resource management.

This book lifts the curtain of an emerging science, and gives an almost startling insight into the interpersonal world. The fundamental revelation is that "We are wired to connect." There is an extreme connection between our contact with another person and its effect on our physical parts. This science begins to solve older scientific puzzles. E.g., some of Cacioppo's initial research uncovered links between involvement in a distressing relationship and increase in stress hormones levels that damage certain genes that control virus-fighting cells. The missing links seem to fall in place where this science enables to convert relationship troubles into biological consequences. Our social interactions also shape and reshape our brains. The experiences that we incur works like the `neuroplasticity' meaning it sculpts the shape, size and number of neurons and their connections.

As these incidents are happening it is important to develop intelligence which helps control negative consequences and impacts. New insights would lead to social intelligence. Considering the fact that working people are constantly getting connected to strangers or other people in general; it becomes mandatory for the science of social intelligence to be studied. The author has gone on to inquiries like: What makes a psychopath dangerously manipulative? Can we do a better job of helping our children grow up to be happy? What makes a marriage a nourishing base? Can relationships buffer us from disease? How can a teacher or leader enable the brains of students or workers to do their best? And many more aspects and relations of life crucial to human beings. The author suggests that these features can be controlled by `acting wisely' and being alert to the `sociable brain'.

Social Intelligence, Human Relationships, organizational behavior, Human resource management, organization culture, Emotional Intelligence, neuroscientists, Business environment, Biological consequences, Emotional Intelligence.