Overview

Because organizations will be asking more of their leaders—not less.

In today’s business environment, leaders at all levels are facing enormous challenges when it comes to achieving and sustaining breakthrough operating results. Globalization, economic change, more stringent regulation, and tougher governance make realizing shareholder value increasingly difficult.

Intelligent Leadership is written for leaders who want to become more effective, strategic, operationally focused, and balanced. It is for leaders who are striving to take control of their destiny and become the best they can be.

In this groundbreaking book, leadership coach John Mattone—recently named to the “guru radar” by the prestigious Thinkers50—taps into his years of experience working with high-achieving professionals to give readers a roadmap for developing and mastering their executive maturity.

Supplying three unique tools—the Wheel of Leadership Success, Map of Leadership Maturity, and the Leadership Enneagram—the book helps readers calibrate their abilities so they can simultaneously focus on their strengths and address their weaknesses. 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 equally important inner traits like values, character, and beliefs in order to achieve their leadership potential.

Featuring best practices, authoritative research, practical assessments, and enlightening examples of both good and bad leadership, this book equips readers with the knowledge, skills, and passion they need to become the leaders they were meant to be.

About the Author

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John Mattone is a widely and highly regarded authority on identifying and developing outstanding business leaders. He has been recognized by the prestigious Thinkers50 as one of the world’s leading management “gurus” and by Leadership Excellence Magazine as one of the world’s top independent leadership consultants. A powerful keynote speaker and highly sought after executive coach, he has addressed more than 500,000 people in over 2,000 speeches and seminars in the U.S., Canada, and other countries; coached more than 200 executives; and consulted for more than 250 organizations, including members of the Fortune 500. He is the president of JohnMattonePartners, Inc. (JMP), a global leadership consulting firm specializing in executive assessment, development, and coaching.

A prolific author, Mattone has written over 100 articles and essays on leadership development and talent management. His books include Talent Leadership and three e-books, Powerful Performance Management, Powerful Executive Coaching, and Succession Planning and Management. In his new book, INTELLIGENT LEADERSHIP (AMACOM; March 28, 2013), Mattone provides a roadmap to help current and emerging leaders develop all the requirements of outstanding leadership: key strategic and tactical competencies, critical values, and maturity. “With real prescriptions for strengthening their inner and outer cores, leaders and future leaders can seize the considerable opportunities that await them,” Mattone assures. “At the same time, they can successfully mitigate the enormous risks associated with the unrelenting pace and complexity of change they face in their part of the business world.”

As a consultant and a corporate executive, Mattone has devoted over 30 years to executive development and human capital management. Prior to founding JMP, he was the Vice President of Global Assessment Services for Linkage, Inc. Before joining Linkage, he was the Vice President of Sales for Drake Beam Morin (DBM), the global career and outplacement firm. Before joining DBM, he spent 10 years building his first successful consulting firm, Human Resources International.

Mattone holds a Master’s degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Central Florida and a Bachelor of Science in Management and Organizational Behavior from Babson College. He teaches a popular course, Global Leadership Assessment and Development, at Florida Atlantic University, where he is an executive MBA faculty member, and is an adjunct faculty member at the Owen School of Management at Vanderbilt University. Certified as a Master Corporate Executive Coach (MCEC) by the Association of Corporate Executive Coaches, he also serves as a Senior Talent Management Consultant and Master Executive Coach for Executive Development Associates; as a Senior Faculty Member with The Talent Management Academy, a worldwide leader in leadership conferences; and on the editorial advisory board of Recruiting Trends Magazine.

John Mattone makes his home in Longwood, Florida.