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Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way (New York: Crown Business, 2011).
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John C. Maxwell, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You, rev. and updated ed. (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2007).
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David Cottrell, Monday Morning Leadership: 8 Mentoring Sessions You Can't Afford to Miss (Dallas, TX: Cornerstone Leadership Institute, 2002).
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Michael Useem, The Leadership Moment: Nine True Stories of Triumph and Disaster and Their Lessons for Us All, rev. ed. (New York: Crown Business, 1999).
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Peter Northouse, Leadership: Theory and Practice, 7th ed. (Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2015).
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Simon Sinek, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action, reprint ed. (New York: Portfolio, 2011).
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Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner. The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations, 5th ed. (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2012).
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Jim Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap…And Others Don't (New York: HarperBusiness, 2001).
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Steven J. Stein and Howard E. Book, The EQ Edge: Emotional Intelligence and Your Success (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000, 2011).
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Steven J. Stein, Make Your Workplace Great: The 7 Keys to an Emotionally Intelligent Organization (Mississauga, ON: Jossey-Bass, 2007).
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David Gelernter, “Bill Gates: Software Strongman,” Time (December 7, 1998): 540–553.
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24
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S. J. Stein and J. Deonarine, Can Emotional Intelligence Help Determine the Next US President? (Toronto, ON: Multi-Health Systems, 2016).
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27
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B. M. Bass and B. J. Avolio, Full Range Leadership Development: Manual for the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (Palo Alto, CA: Mind Garden Inc., 1997).
29
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H. H. Goddard, “The Binet and Simon Tests of Intellectual Capacity,” Training School Bulletin 5 (1908): 3–6; H. H. Goddard, “Two Thousand Normal Children Measured by the Binet Measuring Scale of Intelligence,” Pedagogical Seminary 18 (1911): 232–259.
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L. M. Terman, “The Binet-Simon Scale for Measuring Intelligence: Impressions Gained by its Application,” Psychological Clinic 5 (1911): 199–206; Lewis M. Termanand H. G. Childs, “A Tentative Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Measuring Scale of Intelligence. Part III. Summary and Criticisms,” Journal of Educational Psychology 3, no. 5 (May 1912): 277–289.
32
Richard K. Wagner, “Intelligence, Training, and Employment,” American Psychologist 52, no. 10 (Oct. 1997): 1059–1069. This review article points out that the average observed validity coefficient or correlation between cognitive ability test scores and job performance is between .20 and .30, which amounts to between 4 and 9 percent of the variance. That leaves somewhere between 91 and 96 percent of job performance due to other factors.