Intelligent Leadership: What You Need to Know to Unlock Your Full Potential

by John Mattone

This book helps you calibrate your leadership abilities so you can simultaneously focus on your strengths and--equally important--address your weaknesses. Leadership coach and author John Mattone has years of experience working with high-achieving professionals facing the enormous challenges that come with achieving and sustaining breakthrough operating results as a leader in today’s business environment. This guide recognizes the immense need for a roadmap to developing and mastering the executive maturity necessary for today’s leaders. The goal is to improve key tactical competencies (such as critical and strategic thinking, decision-making, talent and team leadership, and communication) and integrate them with often ignored or under-utilized inner traits Complete with best practices, authoritative research, practical assessments, and enlightening examples of both good and bad leadership, Intelligent Leadership will open your eyes to the knowledge, skills, and passion required to become the leader this world requires.

Genres: Business, Leadership, Nonfiction, Buisness

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2013

About the author

John Mattone is the world’s top executive coach and the co-founder of the Intelligent Leadership Executive Coaching (ILEC) Franchise. He is globally respected as a uniquely distinguished top leadership coach authority who can ignite and strengthen a leader’s inner-self and talents, which enables them to realize four “game-changing” outcomes that they can leverage in their business and life: Altruism, Affiliation, Achievement, and Abundance (The 4 A’s).

In 2017 and 2018, the research organization Globalgurus.org recognized John as one of the top three coaching authorities in the world alongside Tony Robbins and Marshall Goldsmith and, in 2019 and 2020, Globalgurus.org awarded John Mattone the prestigious world’s #1 coaching authority ranking. He was also named as one of eight finalists for the prestigious 2017 Thinkers50 Leadership Award recognizing the world’s top leadership authority and thinker. In 2013, John was awarded the coveted Master Corporate Executive Coach (MCEC) certification from the Association of Corporate Executive Coaches. He was then honored with the prestigious 2015 International Executive Coach Thought Leader of Distinction Award, in recognition of his thought leadership and his work as a global leadership coach. With the award, he received an honorary lifetime MCEC, becoming one of only four global executive coaches who currently hold this certification. Since June 2017, John’s executive coaching blog has continued to be ranked the #1 executive coaching blog in the world by Feedspot. His leadership blog, likewise, is recognized as one of the best in the world.

Since re-launching his business in 2010, after 15 years of corporate life, John Mattone has been on a mission to help leaders, future leaders and organizations break through to become the best they can be. Perhaps the greatest testimony to John’s core purpose and the realization of his dream are his many philanthropic endeavors which include his creating an endowed scholarship fund in his name at the University of Central Florida where John graduated in 1980 first in his class with an MS in Industrial/Organizational Psychology–The John Mattone Leadership & Coaching Scholarship that will be awarded annually to a deserving Master’s or Ph.D. student who shows great promise and potential in the field of coaching and leadership.

John is the author of ten books, including four best-sellers: Talent Leadership (Harper-Collins, 2012-an Amazon Best-Seller), Intelligent Leadership (Harper-Collins, 2013-an Inc. Magazine and Amazon Best-Seller) and Cultural Transformations: Lessons of Leadership & Corporate Reinvention (Wiley, 2016), an Amazon #1 Best-Selling release in Human Resources and #2 in Management as well as an Inc. Magazine Best-Seller. His new release, The Intelligent Leader: Unlocking the 7 Secrets to Leading Others and Leaving Your Legacy (Wiley, 2019-an Amazon Best-Seller) has been recognized by Bookauthority.org as the #2 management book to read in 2020 and the #49 best leadership book of all time.

Reviews

[Taffy]

Opening:
In a breakthrough executive global research that I conducted with my colleague, Bonnie Haggmann, we clearly confirmed that identifying and developing high-potential and emerging leaders is and will continue to be one of the top business issues facing CEOs.

I always read any self-help books with a grain of salt. I learned a lot that helped me rethink how I work and how I can do better. I started a new position in June of last year and I love it! I love taking the program to new heights and new ideas. This book helped me with a few bumps in the job.
The book talks about outer core consists of 9 strategic and tactical leadership competencies and skills to be a successful leader:
1. Critical thinking
2. decision making
3. strategic thinking
1. Create a compelling vision
2. Define a viable mission
3. Develop Synergistic Strategies
4. Creating Quantifiable Goals
4. Emotional leadership
Self-awareness; self-management; motivational empathy; social skills
5. Communication skills
6. talent leadership
7. team leadership
8. change leadership
9. drive for results
And the inner core consists of intrapersonal and interpersonal elements.

[Bhavani Shankar]

Poor editing and review make otherwise good book lose a star. The core of the book is about the personality types, and the book would feel esoteric without having one's own personality scores in front of them to understand, this costs another star.

The ideas are sound and make sense when applied.

[Ron Thibeault]

John Mattone provides some great insight into the different types of leaders out there. He offers some great advice concerning the leadership types. This is a great tool for finding and developing the right leaders for your team.

[Aida Saldaña Hernandez]

It was a good read, now I need to implement the changes suggested!

[Naomi]

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My opinion: One of the best books on leadership I have read in a very long time. This author has laid this book out beautifully with very simple to follow/concise charts and graphics. I loved the breakdown of the leadership traits into easy to understand "maturity levels" and the useful activities to help readers assess levels and strengths/weaknesses of their leadership styles.

This is a book that it will not surprise me to see it utilized in grad school leadership programs.