The Social Intelligence of Linda Coady

By Bruce Piasecki

During these last years of social unrest regarding climate change, police arrests, and issues of economic justice, a few leaders have emerged with exceptional social skills.
Linda Coady is featured in this book as having exceptional social intelligence. Once the planning head of the Vancouver Olympics, she added a social awareness in what was once a realm of elite athletes, and brought more workers, suppliers, and companies into the mix of access and enjoyment. This case examines how she learned early in life how to navigate both the realm of science (her father was a renown doctor) and the realm of social and personal belief (she was trained at the Sisters of Mercy). She became a senior executive at one of the world's largest pipeline and energy infrastructure giants in Calgary, bringing them into greater social awareness. This case study brings you into her genius, her techniques of deep listening. The author Bruce Piasecki, writers of such best sellers as www.doingmorewithlessbook.com, helps the reader understanding what deep listening means, why it matters more than ever.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Nov 17, 2020
• ISBN: 9781098339388

Bruce Piasecki

Dr. Bruce Piasecki has served since 1981 as the founder and chair of AHC Group Inc., a general management consulting firm specializing in growth, energy, environment, and sustainability. Additionally, he has chaired the working group for reinventing the Environmental Protection Agency, served on the EPA’s Executive Advisory Council, and was appointed to the White House Council on Environmental Technology. He is also founder of a family-based community trust, Creative Force Foundation, which provides young writer awards.   Dr. Piasecki has authored over a dozen books, including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling Doing More with Less: A New Way to Wealth.

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The Social Intelligence of Linda Coady

by Bruce Piasecki

First published in 2020 by

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Copyright © 2020 by Bruce Piasecki

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Conquering Tomorrow Today: Six Exemplar Lives

Readable and inspiring

This book is not only readable and inspiring, it has the energy one expects from Bruce Piasecki, an author with a sharp wit, deep learning, and a broad perspective on the world. He’s a writer I always read with pleasure.

—Jay Parini

Best-selling author of The Last Station

A force for healing

At a fractious moment, when the coronavirus global pandemic is decimating our economic and social life, Bruce Piasecki’s new book can be a force for healing and understanding. Piasecki writes in a compelling style. He offers clear-eyed portraits of successful and compassionate people, as we have seen before in Emerson, Freud, and Churchill. These profiles offer the immediacy of oral history, the hard-won knowledge of lived experience, and authentic voices that will draw readers in. You will end up admiring these people, and Piasecki. You can take to heart the wisdom they impart about the storms of today and tomorrow.

—Paul Grondahl

Journalist, author, and Director of

The New York State Writers Institute at the University at Albany

Deeply Consequential

Capitalism is most often these days rapacious, self-serving, and a generator of inequality. Yet there are leaders in our capitalist world who know better and do better. Bruce Piasecki has met a few of them. The six leaders profiled in these pages are deeply consequential, note here what Piasecki calls social response capitalism as a force at play in a tightly global world

—Sandy Schram

Professor of Political Science, Hunter College

Brilliantly portrayed

Effective leaders go about their business somewhat differently than their peers. That’s the magic in these case studies by Bruce Piasecki. Their differences, brilliantly portrayed, allow them to achieve results that others can only imagine. This is invigorating stuff. This book is rich with ‘fun-to-know’ stuff.

—Tim Lindsey

President and CEO, Highlander Innovation

Deeply surprising

Most business leaders that we know are larger-than-life characters. That is what’s so deeply surprising about this new book by Bruce Piasecki. What he explores is how modest, quietly spoken effective people can have as significant an impact as some of their gregarious counterparts. Many can learn from those that dare.

—Richard Ellis

Vice President, Corporate Social Responsibility,

Walgreens Boots Alliance

Worthy for your tomorrow

Aristotle notes that role models are crucial for developing virtues. Bruce Piasecki’s compelling descriptions of Six that Make a Difference dramatize models of virtuous leadership for our age where mastering the complexity of everyday requires unprecedented collaborative skills. Read this book. It will prove worthy for your tomorrow.

—William M. Throop

Professor of Philosophy and Environmental Studies,

Green Mountain College

Other Books by Bruce Piasecki

America’s Future in Toxic Waste Management

Beyond Dumping

Corporate Environmental Strategy

Doing More With Less

Doing More With Teams

Environmental Management and Business Strategy

In Search of Environmental