Menkes, Justin

PERSONAL:

Male. Education: Haverford College, B.A.; University of Pennsylvania, M.A.; Claremont Graduate University, Ph.D.

ADDRESSES:

Home—Los Angeles, CA. Office—Executive Intelligence Group, 300 Park Ave., New York, NY 10022. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

Executive Intelligence Group (consulting firm), New York, NY, cofounder and managing director.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Sigma Xi Psychological Honors Society award, for research contributions to psychology.

WRITINGS:

Executive Intelligence: What All Great Leaders Have, Collins (New York, NY), 2005.

Contributor to periodicals, including Chief Executive and Harvard Business Review.

SIDELIGHTS:

Justin Menkes is the author of Executive Intelligence: What All Great Leaders Have. In an interview on the HarperCollins Web site, Menkes described his philosophy of executive leadership, noting that the ability to prioritize is essential. However, Menkes added that good leaders "anticipate the probable effects of their actions, or recognize underlying agendas and how they might be in conflict with one another. And always, executives must be able to look critically at their own thinking and behavior and make appropriate adjustments."

Executive Intelligence supports Menkes's belief that successful business leaders possess not only good problem-solving skills but also exemplary reasoning powers. The author discusses the developing scientific knowledge about intelligence and testing for it. He then describes how to potentially assess a potential employee's leadership IQ. Writing in Business Week, Dean Foust called the book "thoughtful" and added: "Far from being a dry human resources tome, Executive Intelligence provides a stimulating overview of how the definition of intelligence has evolved over the years." Skip Corsini called the book "a significant achievement" in a review for Training. A Publishers Weekly contributor concluded: "The book's second half convincingly debunks time-honored techniques for assessing executive acumen and abilities."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Business Week, February 20, 2006, Dean Foust, review of Executive Intelligence: What All Great Leaders Have, p. 104.

PR Newswire, March 22, 2006, "Authoria and Justin Menkes, Ph.D., to Present Webcast on Identifying and Developing Future Leaders."

Publishers Weekly, October 17, 2005, review of Executive Intelligence, p. 55.

Training, January, 2006, Skip Corsini, review of Executive Intelligence, 43.

ONLINE

Executive Intelligence Group Web site,http://www.executiveintelligence.com/ (April 24, 2007), brief profile of the author.

HarperCollins Web site,http://www.harpercollins.com/ (April 24, 2006), interview with the author.

Spencer Stuart Web site,http://www.spencerstuart.com/ (April 24, 2006), brief profile of the author.