The Intelligent Startup: A New Model of Coordination for Tomorrow's Leaders

The Intelligent Startup: A New Model of Coordination for Tomorrow’s Leaders is a transformative work by transformative authors.

In this perception-shattering book, George Graen, one of the world’s most cited leadership scholars, and Julio Canedo, creator of the Strategic Alignment App, revisit major management theories using results from their combined decades of research and practice.

Drawing on both quantitative and qualitative metrics, the authors craft a framework to create results-oriented cultures around high-functioning teamwork.

In today’s shifting landscape of knowledge workers, mobility, and flexible work arrangements, such cultures can only be achieved by aligning, empowering, and motivating individuals to deliver strategic attitudes, behaviors, and results. Supported by decades of evidence, the authors show that the implementation of leader-member exchange alliances (LMX-A) are key in this process.

Entrepreneurs, executives, and leaders everywhere cannot afford not to learn from Graen and Canedo.

George Bearnard Graen is an American scholar and scientist in the field of leadership during on-boarding. He was awarded the James McKeen Cattell award by the American Psychological Association as a graduate student at the University of Minnesota for the best research design in Applied Psychology and his doctoral dissertation was published as the only study in a special issue of the Journal of Applied Psychology. Another of his articles was the most requested reprint in ten years in Leadership Quarterly.

He was awarded the Illinois - Keio exchange distinguished professorship to Tokyo, Japan. He also garnered membership in the Center of Advanced Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He was head of the Department of Management at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio and Gene Braun endowed Chair in Management at the University of Louisiana. He is well known globally for authoring his theory of the on-boarding worker procedure, LMX theory, which has been successful in many countries in empowering team startup coordination and retention. He is one of the most cited leadership scholars in the world.

Julio C. Canedo is a Computer Systems and Electronics engineer with an MBA in Human Resource Management (HRM) and a PhD in Strategy/Organizational Behavior. He is an accredited coach and is certified in HRM and ethics. As Associate Professor of Management, he has published and presented his research in numerous academic and professional outlets and conferences.

He is a member of multiple editorial boards and associate editor of academic journals. In addition, he supports multiple non-profit organizations, where he provides pro bono training and consulting. As a consultant, Julio has favorably implemented systems to align, empower, motivate, and lead individuals to deliver strategic organizational results. Combined with Artificial Intelligence algorithms, his methodology is available in the Strategic Alignment App.