Executive intelligence: the leader's edge

Executive Intelligence zeros in on leadership smarts and notes that in all lists compiled by leadership experts, head hunters, and boards of directors the one and only trait that appears in all is intelligence. Obvious? No, because typically leadership savvy regularly trumps smarts. That is unfortunate because it obscures the cultivation and development of how leaders think, speculate, conceive, and problem solve their own firms and the way they lead. Executive intelligence like emotional intelligence acts like an advanced scout sizing up situations, identifying mine fields, creating contingencies, developing last minute ways out, and then acting like the artful dodger. In the process, the leader develops a special kind of intelligence tied to and defining the kind if leader he or she is; and that ultimately generates the leader's edge and comparative advantage. -- Book Description.

Defining leadership intelligence -- How smart do CEOs have to be? -- Only superman or God need apply -- Fred Smith and tough intelligence : learning to lead -- Intuitive intelligence : mastering the leadership of forecasting -- Downsides of visioning : misguided use of the future -- Applying intelligence -- The emergence of the reciprocal leader : the intelligence of managing and leading networks -- The leadership of leadership experts to be -- Navigating leadership taxonomies : 5 choices, 5 directions -- Leadership demise : paranoia and excesses -- Leadership applications of "multiple intelligence" (MI) -- Network intelligence and network science -- Spotting and developing cross-breeds -- Paradigm shift leadership : perils and pitfalls -- Basic leadership types : "transformational intelligence" -- The profile of the transformational leader -- Transformational intelligence -- Transformational leaders as CLOs -- Foresight of transformational leaders -- Transformational coaches : stretch and transition training "transactional intelligence" -- The conversations of horizontal leaders -- Problem collaboration : the scenario methodologies of horizontal leaders "integrative intelligence"…