Leadership Intelligence - Thomas E. Cronin

This book presents leadership as a skill to be learned, a mindset to be developed and an art to be cultivated with practical application across a wide variety of fields.

Highly readable and compelling, Leadership Intelligence (2026) acts as a companion to the authors’ previous award-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 and politics. 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 and scholars of leadership at all levels, especially for young people entering business, the military and politics.