The New Extraordinary Leader, 3rd Edition

Leadership is a complex, often mystifying area of study with numerous variables, systems and unknown factors.  

Leadership takes place in a multitude of environments, involves a variety of skills and encompasses many diverse activities. Leadership methods, formats, styles and strategies vary tremendously.

So, how can companies measure a leader’s effectiveness or determine if a leader is good or bad? Experts can’t define a perfect style of leadership or prove, empirically, that particular strategies are right or wrong. They can’t assess a leader’s effect on crucial constituencies, such as customers and shareholders. 

Leadership’s goal is to make sure employees operate at peak performance, but forms and styles of leading vary tremendously. Organizations can pay attention to leaders’ strengths and weaknesses, however, and can focus, in particular, on their core competencies.

Nineteen core competencies distinguish superior leaders.  

These powerful competencies call on the combinations of skills, knowledge and personal qualities that enable leaders...