Executive Intelligence: What All Great Leaders Have
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Good fit if you want...
- You want practical, interview-driven habits for clearer judgment and better decisions.
- You prefer frameworks focused on personal discipline rather than motivational platitudes.
Maybe skip if...
- You’re looking for step-by-step operational playbooks for specific industries.
- You want a research-heavy academic treatment full of dense theory and citations.
Summary
Justin Menkes distills decades of interviews with top executives into a practical framework for decision-making, judgment, and personal accountability, showing how to develop the mental habits that produce consistently better outcomes.
Edition on file: 2006 • Harpercollins • 336 pages • ISBN 9780060781880.
Why this book now
In an era of rapid change and information overload, sharpening the judgment that guides choices is more valuable than ever for leaders at any level.
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Reading commitment
Balanced Moderate time
At 336 pages, this is a focused, example-rich read you can finish in a weekend or study slowly by applying one chapter’s practice at a time over several weeks.
What stands out here
This HarperCollins 2006 edition emphasizes Menkes’s interviews and hard-earned patterns from real executives—read it for grounded, human stories that illustrate each judgment skill.
Best way to approach it
Read with a notebook: extract the concrete questions and daily habits Menkes recommends, then test one change each week and record outcomes to build your own executive habits.
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