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Experiential Intelligence: What It Is and How to Grow It

Leading Blog

In Experiential Intelligence , author Soren Kaplan describes XQ as “the combination of mindsets, abilities, and know-how gained from your unique life experience that empowers you to achieve your goals.” Kaplan provides specific questions and methods to dig into each of the three areas. Online you can take the XQ Assessment.

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How To Harness Your Experiential Intelligence

Eric Jacobson

“Experiential Intelligence provides a new lens from which to view what makes you, you—and what makes your team and organization unique,” says Soren Kaplan , author of the book, Experiential Intelligence. Kaplan explains that over 100 years ago, we established IQ (Intelligence Quotient) to predict success. Enhance personal growth.

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Leaders Can’t Execute Strategy

Great Leadership By Dan

Every university offering a business degree has on their faculty a professor teaching strategy but almost none have a professor teaching its execution. This has left a skills gap among today’s leaders that heavily contributes to the downfall of company attempts to execute their strategy, resulting in loss of market and shareholder value.

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The Strategy Book

Leading Blog

Strategy is about shaping the future,” writes Max McKeown. There are five basic questions that strategy tries to answer: Where are we? Max McKeown has created a strategy reference work – The Strategy Book – to guide you to the answers. In a sense, strategy creates risk. Where do we want to go?

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Soren Kaplan: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Soren Kaplan is the author of Leapfrogging and a Managing Principal at InnovationPoint, where he works with organizations including Visa, Colgate-Palmolive, Medtronic, Disney, Philips, PepsiCo, and numerous other global firms.

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How To Harness Your Experiential Intelligence

Eric Jacobson

“Experiential Intelligence provides a new lens from which to view what makes you, you—and what makes your team and organization unique,” says Soren Kaplan , author of the new book, Experiential Intelligence. Kaplan explains that over 100 years ago, we established IQ (Intelligence Quotient) to predict success. Enhance personal growth.

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Strategy Execution and The Balanced Scorecard

Six Disciplines

Kaplan, one of the original creators of the Balanced Scorecard in 1992. Key take-aways from their latest research: Companies often manage strategy in fits and starts. Strategy forumulation needs to be a continual process - not an annual event. Leadership sets the ambitious vision and stretch targets.