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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
Coauthor of The Leadership Challenge
and Encouraging the Heart

“Joe Folkman and Jack Zenger have proved themselves to be extraordinary
thinkers. In their new book, The Extraordinary Leader, they unfold the most
intriguing and provocative new research on leadership that I have
encountered in many years. This book is a ‘must read’ for anyone faced with
the day-to-day challenges of developing extraordinary leadership talent
within an organization.”
—Annie LaBombard
Director of Leadership
Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company

“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 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