Foreword

Leaders are everywhere we look. For more than three decades, we’ve been traveling the world constantly researching the practices of exemplary leadership and the qualities people look for and admire in leaders they would willingly follow. We’ve talked to people from every type of organization, public and private, government and nongovernment, high tech and low tech, small and large, schools and professional services. They are young and old, male and female, and from every ethnic group. They represent every imaginable vocation and avocation. They reside in every country we’ve studied. And they all have a story to tell.

Conventional wisdom portrays leadership as if it were found mostly at the top. Myth and legend have treated leadership ...

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