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Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take

Intelligent Leadership

John Mattone · 2013
74/100
👍 Worth It

John Mattone's dual-lens framework — integrating outer competencies with inner character — is one of the more useful structures in the crowded leadership development space, and the Marshall Goldsmith foreword signals real peer credibility. The three proprietary tools give readers something concrete to work with rather than just inspiration. Readers already deep in leadership literature may find familiar territory, but those newer to the field will get genuine value.

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