Body Fat, Exercise, and Effective Leadership

The CLI rates individuals on specific leadership characteristics such as dependability, being organized, productivity, energy, originality, and farsightedness. In comparison to the ESP, it is thus less competency based and more attribute based. The various CLI attributes were compared for executives with different levels of exercise and percentages of body fat. Not surprisingly, when we looked at the attribute of energy, we found significant differences between those who rarely exercised (less than one hour a week) and those who exercised regularly (more than three hours a week). Of interest is that both the self and observer scores on energy were higher in those who exercised.

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