4. What Do Highly Rated Leaders Do?

By defining the tasks of leadership in Chap. 3, we have left it to leaders to find their own, unique approaches to achieving each task. In this chapter, however, we offer the tactics deployed by those leaders who have been highly rated by business psychologists in leadership assessments conducted by the Edgecumbe Consulting Group and which have been peer reviewed for consistency. In so doing, we do not suggest that other leaders need to address the tasks in these ways, but rather that these tactics work particularly well according to the research conducted on the assessment database of several thousand executives. In addition, in the following sections, we offer our judgement of tactics which may be the most powerful differentiators between the best and the rest.