Book Review Executive Intelligence What All Great Leaders Have

Book Review: Executive Intelligence â€" What All Great Leaders Have This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules -- . The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security. Top 10 Posts on Categories Executive Intelligence â€" What all Great Leaders Have, by Justin Menkes, suggests that success in management is driven by executive intelligence, the intellectual ability to actually do the job. Yet, hiring managers â€" or boards of directors â€" “are enamored with attributes, such as personality and style, that are only tangentially related to how well executives actually do their job.” Justin then divides the book into logical sections; The Good The book is a fascinating examination of intelligence and the role of intelligence for success in business. Most of us are aware when a manager “gets it” or doesn’t and the significant consequences of that knowing. Justin takes this to the executive level and provides concrete examples of executive intelligence â€" or lack of it â€" in action. The objective here is to try and define how to predict success in a business environment. I was hoping for a formula â€" aren’t we all? â€" but there isn’t one. Instead, clear discussions around the pluses and minuses of the work on intelligence and how they relate to business are presented. The Bad The book is necessarily written in a more academic style, though there are plenty of examples thrown in that show it isn’t an academic book. But the book almost requires an interest in what research says about intelligence and how they said it, so the writing could turn some readers off if they are not used to this research orientation. I was also hoping, if not for a formula, at least some better indicators of whether a leader has executive intelligence or not. Cubicle Warriors need to know if their employer is running the shop right or not and some indicators would have been useful. Related Reviews Rating This is not a step-by-step, practical analysis that would allow one to look at the actions of a leader or manager and determine if there was a good critical thinking ability there. The book is good theory, well written, and offers us a new view of what constitutes successful leadership. Rating: 3 of 5 cubes “We need both character and intelligence.” Amen. Reply Position authority no longer holds the clout it had in the past. New generations of employees respect ability more than authority. They also want someone that is authentic and can be trusted. Perhaps this is not an either/or debate. We need both character and intelligence. Reply This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules â€" . The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security. policies The content on this website is my opinion and will probably not reflect the views of my various employers. Apple, the Apple logo, iPad, Apple Watch and iPhone are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. I’m a big fan.