Resonant Leadership: Renewing
Yourself and Connecting with Others
Through Mindfulness, Hope, and
Compassion by Annie McKee
Ei Plus.
Unlike most other books, Resonant Leadership undersells itself. With easy
justification, the authors or their editors at Harvard Business School Press
could have applied a more expansive moniker like Secrets of Enduring
Leaders, or How to Deal with Burnout, or perhaps even Being Happy at
Work. The works modest title, though, takes nothing away from its grand
ambition: to explain what makes leaders effective amid unrelentingly
stressful situations. The authors, Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee, will
be familiar to many businesspeople and management theorists. They
collaborated with Daniel Goleman on the bestselling Primal Leadership,
which extended Golemans seminal work on emotional intelligence, and
explained how EQ, not just IQ, underpins success in guiding and directing

organizations. With this latest book, Boyatzis and McKee have continued
developing their holistic view of management. Its an attractive one.
Resonant Leadership begins with recognition of leaders essential humanity
and analyzes the physical, mental, and emotional triggers that make men
and women strong or weak as leaders. As readers might expect from an
HBS Press offering, Boyatzis and McKees methodology is appropriately
academic, with extensive footnotes and research citations, but it also uses
a nice blend of anecdotes from their field work as consultants, and is
expressed through decidedly touchy-feely language. What emerges is a
highly engaging, readable work that takes business audiences into
somewhat unusual psychological territory, far beyond the usual bar charts
and spreadsheets. The books organization is simple. Boyatzis and
McKee start by describing the highly stressful conditions in which leaders
operate today, and explain sympathetically how many well-intentioned
people fall into what they call dissonance due to burnout. Whereas the
authors earlier book focused on the initial ingredients for leadership
effectiveness, their interest now is in ongoing, enduring resonance--
leaders who can be effective today, but also maintain their edge into
tomorrow, as well. Resonant Leadership thus moves from this initial
exposition of problems--management ineffectiveness, and/or burnout--to
solutions. The authors anchor their prescription around three core qualities
which they believe resonant leaders must continually cultivate:
mindfulness, hope, and compassion. These may sound like ephemeral
concepts, but they form the touchstone of Resonant Leadership and are
cited again and again. Readers of Boyatzis and McKees latest--whether
already-strong leaders looking to maintain their effectiveness, or burned-
out ones aiming to get back in the proverbial saddle--will find this is a
thought-provoking read. --Peter Han
Personal Review: Resonant Leadership: Renewing Yourself and
Connecting with Others Through Mindfulness, Hope, and
Compassion by Annie McKee
Really takes EI one step further by demonstrating the additional
importance of Compassion and Hope, plus the need to step back and
review; leadership can be lonely!!!
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