The Extraordinary Leader

In The Extraordinary Leader, John H. Zenger and Joseph R. Folkman explore what it takes to develop poor and average leaders into extraordinary leaders, defined as those leaders occupying the top ten percentiles of effectiveness as rated by their colleagues and subordinates. Drawing on data generated from studies involving 200,000 individuals rating 25,000 leaders, Zenger and Folkman arrive at some surprising conclusions and present their plan for leadership development in a series of easily understood metaphors.