Leadership Intelligence: Science-Backed Strategies for Mastering 21 Everyday Management Challenges
Caroline Webb
Crown Currency (September 2026)

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re probably right.” Henry Ford

Caroline Webb wrote Leadership Intelligence in order to help as many executives as possible to accelerate their personal growth and professional development. Also, to guide and inform others who are now preparing for a career in business or have only recently embarked upon one.

What’s in it for you?

She can help you (and your colleagues) to achieve these specific objectives, each of which is preceded by a HOW TO:

o Better understand a complex situation
o Make time for your top priorities
o Come up with fresh ideas and solutions
o Make an important decision
o Mentally prepare for a key meeting
o Handle a disagreement well
o Lead intelligent [i.e. productive] team discussion

o Get people aligned on a goal
o Change the way people work
o Communicate and be heard
o Delegate for high performance
o Give feedback that drives action
o Develop a colleague’s capabilities
o Strengthen team collaboration

o Stay steady and energized under pressure
o Lead through uncertainty and upheaval
o Improve a stakeholder relationship
o Help a colleague who’s struggling
o Respond effectively [and appropriately] to failures and mistakes
o Handle exits and layoffs fairly
o Build healthy resilience within your team

Caroline Webb provides an abundance of information, insights, strategies, tactics, techniques, and counsel that has been generated by wide and deep research based on real-world, science-driven experience in a business world that has become today more volatile, more uncertain, more complex, and more ambiguous than at any prior time that I can recall.

Of course, the ultimate value of this book’s material will be determined almost entirely by the skills with which you absorb and digest it, then apply it to the specific needs and values of your workplace culture. Whatever their size and nature may be, all organizations urgently need leadership intelligence at all levels and in all areas of their operations.

The core sciences of deliberate wisdom, intrinsic inspiration, and reasoned resilience will always depend on humans rather than on machines to fulfill their potential value.

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Here are two suggestions while you are reading Leadership Intelligence: First, highlight key passages. Also,  perhaps in a lined notebook kept near-at-hand,  record your comments, questions, and action steps (preferably with deadlines). Pay special attention to Caroline Webb’s superb “Introduction” (Pages 1-7) as well as to the briefing on each of the three Parts: “The Core Science of Deliberate Wisdom (10-13),” “The Core Science of Intrinsic Inspiration” (116-119),  and “The Core Science of Reasoned Resilience” (226-229). Also, lock in on mini-commentaries (e.g. “Spotlight On” and “Bonus Tip”) that she strategically inserts throughout her lively as well as eloquent narrative.

These two simple tactics — highlighting and documenting — will expedite frequent reviews of key material later.