Leadership Intelligence

Michael A Genovese author Thomas E Cronin author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Publishing:30th Oct '26

£27.99

This title is due to be published on 30th October, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

Leadership Intelligence cover

This highly readable and compelling book aids students and would-be leaders in a whole variety of fields to understand leadership and become effective leaders.

Leadership Intelligence builds on the authors’ national prize-winning Leadership Matters (2012). Political scientists and leadership scholars Tom Cronin and Michael Genovese provide a guide for navigating the contradictions, ambiguities and nuances of leadership. They clarify the realities and competing definitions of leadership. They examine what we learn about leadership intelligence from the classics, war, business, politics and film. They also examine the problems of toxic and dysfunctional power wielding. Finally, they examine how leadership intelligence differs from IQ and Emotional Intelligence yet combines these with creativity and entrepreneurial skills.

Leadership Intelligence is essential reading for students of leadership, especially undergraduate students and young people entering business, the military and politics.

Praise for Leadership Intelligence

“Effective leadership requires lessons from multiple sources. Cronin and Genovese offer a complex yet clear understanding of leadership for student, scholar, and practitioner.”

---Ronald E. Riggio, Kravis Professor of Leadership & Organization Psychology at Claremont McKenna College

Praise for the authors’ previous collaborations:

Leadership Matters (2012)

“This is an extraordinary book. The scholarship is mind-boggling. It is an absolute tour-de-force--one of the most wide-ranging, fascinating, intricate studies of leadership I have ever read."

---Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize Winning Historian

"This is a terrific book---destined to become a classic."

---James O'Toole, Former Executive VP, Aspen Institute

The Paradoxes of the American Presidency (multiple editions (1999-2022):

“One of the most clarifying and brilliant books on presidential leadership...a modern classic."

--- Warren Bennis, University of Southern California

"Instructive, fascinating, thought-provoking and essential reading for any citizen, student of government and everyone at the White House."

--- Edward J. Rollins, Former White House advisor

American Politics Film Festival (2025):

"Thunderous applause from Cronin and Genovese’s American Politics Film Festival. Delightful reading, packed with insight, analysis and commentary on over a hundred films that have probed the 'idea of America'."

---David Gray Adler, President of Altura Institute, Idaho

"An absolutely delightful ,provocative and creative book on American political films and important television documentaries."

--- Thane Rosenbaum, Fordham Law School and Founder, Forum on Life, Culture and Society, NYC


Praise for Leadership Intelligence

“Effective leadership requires lessons from multiple sources. Cronin and Genovese offer a complex yet clear understanding of leadership for student, scholar, and practitioner.”

---Ronald E. Riggio, Kravis Professor of Leadership & Organization Psychology at Claremont McKenna College

Praise for the authors’ previous collaborations:

Leadership Matters (2012)

“This is an extraordinary book. The scholarship is mind-boggling. It is an absolute tour-de-force--one of the most wide-ranging, fascinating, intricate studies of leadership I have ever read."

---Doris Kearns Goodwin, Pulitzer Prize Winning Historian

"This is a terrific book---destined to become a classic."

---James O'Toole, Former Executive VP, Aspen Institute

The Paradoxes of the American Presidency (multiple editions (1999-2022):

“One of the most clarifying and brilliant books on presidential leadership...a modern classic."

--- Warren Bennis, University of Southern California

"Instructive, fascinating, thought-provoking and essential reading for any citizen, student of government and everyone at the White House."

--- Edward J. Rollins, Former White House advisor

American Politics Film Festival (2025):

"Thunderous applause from Cronin and Genovese’s American Politics Film Festival. Delightful reading, packed with insight, analysis and commentary on over a hundred films that have probed the 'idea of America'."

---David Gray Adler, President of Altura Institute, Idaho

"An absolutely delightful ,provocative and creative book on American political films and important television documentaries."

--- Thane Rosenbaum, Fordham Law School and Founder, Forum on Life, Culture and Society, NYC

ISBN: 9781041018308

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

276 pages

2nd edition