CHAPTER FIVE
Create a Focus on Results
As we have established, few things make a difference in a company like hidden leaders who are focused on results. So what is it that allows a hidden leader to sustain a powerful focus on results? We maintain it is the presence of two characteristics: taking initiative and maintaining a wide perspective. However, these aspects must be combined in the right amounts in the hidden leader. An imbalance of either trait leads to a very different type of person on the job.
EVALUATING A FOCUS ON RESULTS
Figure 5-1 illustrates how the two elements of initiative and perspective combine to indicate a hidden leader—or something else.
Figure 5-1: The four roles that emerge from combinations of initiative and perspective ...
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