Leadership Intelligence
Michael A Genovese author Thomas E Cronin author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:30th Oct '26
£155.00
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This highly readable and compelling book aids students and would-be leaders in a wide variety of fields to understand leadership and become effective leaders.
Leadership Intelligence builds on the authors’ national prize–winning Leadership Matters (2012) and their two earlier highly praised books, The Paradoxes of the American Presidency (1999–2023) and American Politics Film Festival (2025). Political scientists and leadership scholars Tom Cronin and Michael A. 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, Emotional Intelligence, and Artificial Intelligence yet combines these with creativity and an entrepreneurial mindset.
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
“Leadership Intelligence is a great contribution.”
—George R. Goethals, ed., The SAGE Encyclopedia of Leadership Studies, and Professor Emeritus, Jepson School of Leadership, University of Richmond
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 for 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: 9781041026983
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 650g
254 pages
2nd edition