Blending the work of Goleman, Gardner (Multiple Intelligences), and Marquis and Tilcsik (Imprinting), I now devoting my research toward an amalgamation of these works which we have coined as leadership intelligence and assess as leader acumen. This theory (the leadership intelligence theory) holds that the soft skills a leader possesses are as integral a part of leadership as is 'hard' knowledge (i.e. technical skills, academic competencies, etc).
