Book Review

The Science of Leadership: Nine Ways to Expand Your Impact

A guide for leaders and their teams

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This is not light reading or a warm, fuzzy “be a great person and your team will follow you” book.

But it’s time well spent, and if you follow Jeffrey Hull and Margaret Moore’s advice, you’ll definitely strengthen your leadership skills and expand your impact.

The Science of Leadership opens with a strong academic tone, but relaxes into more of a conversational style as it moves into the specific leadership topics. Even so, the depth of research the authors have done remains apparent and you understand that you’re going to have to do the work to get results.

The authors focus on leadership topics that you can actually use. They write:

“[W]e didn’t include characteristics that leaders can’t easily change, such as age, intelligence, personality, and identity. We left out research on toxic, destructive, and narcissistic leadership; it won’t surprise you that these approaches are harmful to leadership results, including workforce well-being.”

The authors have identified nine leadership capacities broken down into…