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Assessment by Subordinates

Figure 7-1 Sample Assessment of Your Leadership Effectiveness
The other disciplines of molecular biology, pharmaceutical science, and
clinical medicine felt that he failed to listen to their input. After extensive
feedback from other people and through surveys, Frederick began to change
the way he treated others. Making changes in this one specific arena caused
his overall ratings to escalate to much higher levels. Conclusion: If you have
a fatal flaw—fix it.

Frequency of Fatal Flaws and Strengths

In our research we discovered that nearly all leaders fall neatly and rather
equally into one of three categories. As noted earlier, we defined a flaw as
something at or below the 10th percentile and a strength as something at the
90th percentile and above, then the pattern we discovered is that nearly all
leaders are in one of three categories:
1. those who possess one or more flaws.
2. those who have neither flaws nor strengths.
3. those who possess one or more strengths.