Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership

FOREWORD

By Geoffrey Moore

Real leadership in daily practice is far from the commonly understood caricature of leadership. We don't really know what leadership means, in part because it never means quite the same thing twice. It does not always stand for great things by definition. Indeed, much of the time its most powerful acts pass unnoticed, even when we are looking for them. And although it is always demonstrated by our words and actions, those are so dependent on who we are at the time that they cannot be learned by example or by rule.

Emerson has a great line: "God is, not was." The same is true of leadership. It is the performance in the moment, not the performance in the mind, that matters. Yes, there is preparation, and indeed, the more ...