CHAPTER 12

Our Aspiration: More Best Bosses!

By this point in our book, we hope we have prompted you to deeply consider your own leadership style. We have offered up our Best Boss study insights, shared compelling stories, and provided opportunities to self-reflect on how your leadership behaviors align with our Best Boss model. In Chapter 9, we shared some specific ideas about how you can improve your people leadership skills. We considered ending our discussion there, satisfied with the prospect that we had the opportunity to influence many of you to become better individual bosses.

However, while there is nothing wrong with individual-by-individual incremental positive change, we have an additional, more ambitious goal. That is to encourage ...

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