getAbstract Publishes How to Be Exceptional Book Summary

OREM, Utah - May 15, 2013 - PRLog -- getAbstract is featuring How To Be Exceptional: Drive Leadership Success by Magnifying Your Strengths, as one of their newest and top rated executive book summaries. Most people know good leadership when they see it, and this book from Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman of leadership development firm, Zenger Folkman, gives data-backed best practices that, if followed, give leaders and organizations a distinct advantage.  These practices are demonstrable and measurable, in terms of all the measurements that define success: employee engagement, employee loyalty, and revenue results.

getAbstract wrote: “The authors calculate that approximately 32% of leadership ability is genetically based and that the other 68% depends on other factors, such as developing the skills that leadership requires. The authors explain how their research substantiates the merits of “strengths-based” leadership development and cover how that works and what it can accomplish in building leaders for your organization. While this dense, knowledgeable report is sometimes repetitive, the authors offer useful, convincing expertise and information. getAbstract recommends their guidance to all those who want to become “exceptional leaders” and to organizations that want to foster great leadership.”

In this summary, readers will learn

• Why your organization needs exceptional leaders

• Why focusing on strengths, not weaknesses, is the best way to develop leaders

• What skills the 16 core leadership competencies require

• How to use cross-training in leadership development

Don’t miss the chance to understand the extensive research that went into uncovering how exceptional leaders are made. To download this book summary go to http://www.getabstract.com/en/summary/leadership-and-mana...

This summary is an excerpt of the book How To Be Exceptional: Drive Leadership Success by Magnifying your Strengths, by Jack Zenger, Joseph Folkman, Robert H. Sherwin, Jr., and Barbara Steel, order on  Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/How-Exceptional-Leadership-Magnifyi...) now.  

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