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Measure of a Leader By Aubrey C. Daniels and James E. Daniels, Performance Management Publications, 2005 List price: $21.95,202 paqes, ISBN: 0-937100-11-0
Leadership is an essential ingredient in the success of any organization or entity. With an estimated failure rate for American business leaders of close to 60 percent and top corporate executives being replaced at the rate of one per day, U.S. business faces a crisis in leadership. To improve anything you have to measure it, but how do you measure leadership? Do you look at bottom-line success? Charisma? Specific personality traits?
In Measure of a Leader, authors Aubrey and James Daniels, of the management consulting firm of Aubrey Daniels International, hold that you measure leaders by measuring the eifects of their actions on their followers. According to the authors, four criteria of followers'...