The TQ Series

Transactional Intelligence™

Why It Matters More Than Expertise

Kirkland Tibbels & John Patterson · Influential U

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Transactional Intelligence — Why It Matters More Than Expertise, by Kirkland Tibbels and John Patterson

Book One of the TQ Series.

Transactional Intelligence is the flagship title — the complete case for why TQ matters and how it works. It is the foundation from which every title in the series builds.

The TQ Series applies Transactional Intelligence™ to the specific challenges that derail careers, teams, and organizations. This is where it begins.

Most careers are built on expertise. The working assumption: get good enough at what you do, and the right outcomes follow.

TQ exists because that assumption has a gap in it.

IQ tells you how you think. EQ tells you how you feel. TQ tells you what's actually happening in the exchange — and what to do about it.

What people call "transactional" — cold, calculated, self-serving — isn't transacting. It's Low TQ. The absence of Transactional Intelligence™ (TQ).

This book gives you the method.

The Gap Isn't Your Expertise. It Never Was.

You agreed. Then resented it.

Everyone nodded. Nothing got done.

You ignored the signs. They quietly quit.

You know what you're worth. You keep taking less.

The vision is clear to you. You can't get buy-in.

These Aren't People Problems. They're TQ Problems.

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Chapter 1 puts you inside a high-stakes meeting that both parties believe is going well. It is not going well. Fifteen minutes of reading that changes how you see every professional exchange you've ever had.

No framework. No jargon. Just the cost of what nobody in the room could see.

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"TQ changes how professionals think about results — and for anyone accountable for outcomes that depend on others, TQ is immediately actionable and scalable."

— Dan Murphy, Entrepreneur & Engineering Executive

Kirkland Tibbels originated the Transactional Intelligence framework, drawing from decades of research into the philosophy of transactionalism. His work underpins the entire model.

John Patterson built the structured methodology that makes TQ teachable and actionable — in the room, in real time — with professionals across more than twenty countries.

Together they lead Influential U, delivering TQ-based curriculum worldwide.