FOREWORD

Today’s business climate demands leadership throughout the organization. The Extraordinary Leader draws on data from more than 200,000 individuals who have rated more than 25,000 leaders to show how leaders can go from being good to being great, from being average to being extraordinary. The book focuses on the top 10 percent of leaders, as defined by their stakeholders. These leaders are exemplars and should become the standard to which others aspire.

The Extraordinary Leader both complements and advances the work we began in Results-Based Leadership. In that earlier work, we argued that leadership is a combination of attributes and results, but we focused there on the “results” side of the equation; in this book, the authors emphasize ...

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