Lead by Example: 50 Ways Great Leaders Inspire Results.

• Author: Marshall, Jeffrey
• Position: Brief article - Book review

Lead by Example: 50 Ways Great Leaders Inspire Results. By John Baldoni. Amacom, 215 pages. $21.95.

"Command is granted; leadership is earned." John Baldoni, a noted writer and consultant on leadership issues, cites this military aphorism in his introduction, and goes on to create a succinct and pithy framework for analyzing leadership and how it can be learned and improved.

While his decision to create 50 methods seems more than a little arbitrary--and arguably designed for maximum bookshelf attention--he builds those 50 around four central themes that make a lot of sense: set the right example; act the part; handle the tough stuff; and put the team first.

Lead by Example is essentially structured as a series...