Friday, January 20, 2006

Measure of a Leader


With executives being replaced a rate of one per day and confidence in government at record lows, are we looking in the wrong places for solutions to our leadership crisis?

Aubrey Daniels, the author of the management bestseller "Bringing out the Best in People" and expert on human behaviour in the workplace, believes that we are.

Rather than obsessing over so-called leadership qualities like personality, profits, and charisma, Daniels argues that we need bold new ways to measure and pursue leadership and to refocus attention where power truly resides – with followers.

"Measure of a Leader," Aubrey and James Daniels' new book, applies behavioural science to the study of leadership and suggests that anyone can develop more effective leadership skills by learning to observe and understand the behaviour of followers.

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