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Much like Gardner's Multiple Intelligences, Maulding-Green and Leonard have, in Leadership Intelligence: The Journey to Your True North, postulated a theory regarding the age old question, 'are leaders born or are leaders made?' This theory is predicated on the idea that there is a genetic predisposition toward leadership via the vehicle of imprinting.
The five critical factors which undergird the tenets of Leadership Intelligence, are delineated and developed through the lens of the soft skills of a leader. There is further clarification as to why some leaders seem to have 'a greater intensity' of these factors than their peers.
To aid the reader in relating to the theory, a conceptual model based on a GPS is threaded throughout each chapter interweaving both examples and understandable content. The model relates keeping the organization moving in a true north fashion. The final chapters reveal how a leader can develop or enhance these skills and how he/she can avoid leadership derailment, due to neglecting them.
List of contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1- Leadership Intelligence and Imprinting
Chapter 2- Navigating Leadership
Chapter 3- In 500 Feet, Stay Right: Leader Credibility
Chapter 4- Recalculating: Leader Competence
Chapter 5- Satellite Reception Lost: Leader Inspiration
Chapter 6- You Have Arrived at Your Destination: Leader Vision
Chapter 7- Route Guidance Suggested: Leader Emotional Intelligence
Chapter 8- Updating Your Internal GPS: Building Leadership Intelligence
Chapter 9- A Rough Road: Avoiding Leadership Derailment
Chapter 10- Remember, It's All About the Journey
Appendix: Leadership Intelligence Web Site
About the Authors
Index
About the author
Dr. Wanda Mauldin Green Leonard has served in leadership roles in both the K12 and higher education for over 40 years. As current university faculty, she enjoys training practicing and aspiring leaders and is sought after for her coaching skills by both higher ed institutions as well as school districts.Dr. Ed Leonard has served in leadership roles in both the K12 and higher education for over 40 years. As current university faculty, he enjoys training practicing and aspiring leaders and is sought after for his coaching skills by both higher ed institutions as well as school districts.
Summary
Leaders impact the workplace via organizational climate. This is primarily done through the relationships created, leader to employee. In Leadership Intelligence - Navigating through Confidence and Humility the authors make the case for creating this ultimate climate. Specific empirical evidence to this end is shared in this the second edition.
