📖 Leadership Intelligence

"Caroline Webb's first book, How to Have a Good Day, is so wonderful that I assign it in every course I teach at NYU-Stern. Now she's back with a terrific book for leaders. . . .

If you want to become a wiser, more inspiring, and more resilient leader, Leadership Intelligence is the best book you can read."

^{—Jonathan Haidt, Professor at NYU Stern School of Business, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Anxious Generation and The Righteous Mind}

Leadership can be rewarding—but also deeply demanding.

Leaders are pulled in every direction at once: deliver now, build for later, see the big picture, stay close to the ground.

Meanwhile, technology is changing in generation-defining ways, and the division of labor between human and machine keeps shifting.

What does it take to lead intelligently through that?

In Leadership Intelligence, Caroline Webb provides practical advice and proven approaches to help you:

• Make Good Choices (using Deliberate Wisdom)

• Motivate Your People (using Intrinsic Inspiration)

• Rise to the Challenge (using Reasoned Resilience)

1/ Deliberate Wisdom: Adopt habits that systemically WIDEN your perspective where it matters and LIGHTEN the cognitive load everywhere else.

2/ Intrinsic Inspiration: Create a working environment that’s rich in COMPETENCE (feeling capable and in control) and CONNECTION (feeling valued and useful to others).

3/ Reasoned Resilience: To maximize the chances that someone will be able to thrive under pressure, frame challenges as at least somewhat MANAGEABLE and that the experience might even be somewhat MEANINGFUL.

Bestselling author Daniel Pink said “Caroline Webb’s frameworks are simple enough to remember and powerful enough to reshape how you work.”

I couldn’t agree more. Most leadership advice is either too abstract or overly complicated, but this book is powerfully simple.

— Scott