The New Extraordinary Leader, 3rd Edition: Turning Good Managers into Great Leaders (MGMT & LEADERSHIP) - Hardcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

John H. Zenger, D.B.A., is CEO of Zenger Folkman, a firm that helps organizations and individuals improve leadership effectiveness that, in turn, drives business results. These results include increasing employee engagement, retention, productivity, and bottom-line profitability. He is a member of the HRD Hall of Fame and has authored or coauthored eight books and 50 articles on leadership, productivity, and teams.

Joseph R. Folkman, Ph.D., is president of Zenger Folkman. He is an authoritative voice on the subject of creating and using employee surveys to create organizational change and 360- degree feedback assessment for individual development. Folkman is the author of three books: Turning Feedback into Change, Making Feedback Work, and Employee Surveys That Make a Difference.

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“Much has been written on leadership, mostly these writings have been expressed through personal philosophies and beliefs. As a result, we have grown cynical on books about leadership. However, once again, Zenger and Folkman have broken through the chatter and generated new compelling insights on the topic. Based on a convincing body of evidence, The New Extraordinary Leader provides data-driven practices. I especially love the insight; powerful combinations produce nearly exponential results. It turns out that there is no universal truth for leading, but a few practices combined in the appropriate context can be breakthrough. Whether you are a leader, an inspiring leader or a leadership coach, you must read this book.”
--Michael J. Arena, former Chief Talent Officer, General Motors and author of Adaptive Space

“I fell in love with The New Extraordinary Leader on page 1. From the moment I started reading I really got jazzed, and my enthusiasm only increased the more I read. You see, I’m just mad about books that attack cherished but unsupportable assumptions about anything, especially leadership. That’s exactly what Jack Zenger and Joe Folkman do, and they do it persuasively, precisely, and professionally. The Extraordinary Leader is no hackneyed rehashing of tired nostrums. Through their exceptional research, the authors demonstrate and prove that leadership does make a difference and that you can learn to lead. There are some profound insights in this book, and whether you’ve studied leadership for over 20 years, as I have, or you are brand new to the subject, Zenger and Folkman give you much more than your money’s worth. And while their research gives the book distinctive credibility, their examples and practical applications give it life. This is a book that scholars and practitioners will be referring to for years to come.If your goal is to be a better leader than you are today, then you must read this book.”
—James M. Kouzes, Chairman Emeritus, Tom Peters Company and coauthor of The Leadership Challenge and Encouraging the Heart

“Read this book! Its approach to understanding leadership development is unique: It uses data, not opinion! Some of the insights are intuitive, but many are counterintuitive. Extraordinarily readable, this book represents some of the best thinking on leadership I’ve seen in a long while.”
—E. David Spong, President, Military Aerospace Support, The Boeing Company

“Ordinarily, I’d say the last thing we need is another book on leadership. But The New Extraordinary Leader by Jack Zenger and Joe Folkman is refreshingly different. Rather than serve up yesterday’s anecdotes, they’ve performed the heavy lifting of empirical data collection and analysis. The foreword promises clarity, simplicity, and utility in addressing the real-world challenges of developing leaders, and this book delivers that and more. This is a must read.”
—Jon Younger, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Leadership Development, National City Corporation

“The authors’ promise on the bottom of page 3 to do their best ‘to unravel the mystery of leadership through careful analysis and observation’ of a huge database ‘by emulating Sherlock Holmes,’ grabbed my attention. Always an avid mystery reader, I found myself compulsively turning pages, devouring the entire book, like any good mystery, in one sitting. I especially appreciated the wisdom found in Insights 1 to 20, the nonobvious competency companions, and the distinctions between mattress and tent leadership models. By the last chapter (when all at last had been revealed), I had deduced a far better way to help my organization become a company of leaders than I’ve been able to figure out in the past 20 years!”
—Sallie T. Hightower, Ed.D., Conoco University, Conoco, Inc.

“Finally someone has moved beyond theory and complicated models to tell us what great leaders really bring to the party. Zenger and Folkman have effectively summarized data on 20,000 leaders that help us understand what really makes leaders tick. Any serious student of leadership will both enjoy this book’s journey and walk away with useful new insights that will help them and others.”
—Ralph Christensen, Senior Vice President, Human Resources, Hallmark Cards, Inc.

“This book has changed the way I think! If you want to move from good to great as a leader, don’t focus on a weakness; instead, take a strength and build on it. Jack Zenger and Joe Folkman have written an important book, full of insight and based on sound research. It will shape the way we help our clients develop executives.”
—Douglas D. Anderson, Founder and Managing Partner, Center for Executive Development–Boston

“This is a ‘must read’ for coaches, leaders, and those who develop them. The New Extraordinary Leader goes beyond anecdotes or ‘war stories’; it builds upon comprehensive research. It is destined to be a classic in our field.”
—Marshall Goldsmith, Named by Forbes as one of five top executive coaches and one of the Wall Street Journal’s “Top 10” executive educators