Good To Great: Leaders eat last

As businesses face evolving challenges, four aspects of leadership willbecome dramatically more important: insight, integrity, courage, and agility.It may be that advancing technology plays the most visible role in shapingmanufacturing progress in the years ahead. But we believe that what will matter at least as much for manufacturing¿s future is something that¿s much less visible, even though it has long been the bedrock of performance: effective leadership. How individual leaders inspire and influence others will become a key differentiator between organizations that thrive and those that do not.In our experience transforming large, complex organizations at scale, the bulk of the work is usually in creating operational and managerial solutions. Yet we also know that nothing will happen, let alone sustain itself over time, without effective leadership. Indeed, extensive¿and remarkably quantitative¿research confirms that there are roughly 20 fundamental components of leadership that correlate closely to organizational performance.