Fundamentals of Management 6th Edition by Ricky Griffin

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Exercise Overview
Conceptual skills require you to think in the abstract. This exercise introduces you to one approach to assessing leadership skills and relating leadership theory to practice.
Exercise Background
At any given time, there's no shortage of publications offering practical advice on management and leadership. Most business best-seller lists in 2008 included titles such as Good to Great by Jim Collins; First, Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckingham; and The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John C. Maxwell. Some of these books, such as Winning by former General Electric CEO Jack Welch, are written by managers with years of experience. Others are written by consultants, professors, or reporters.
Granted, a lot of these books-okay, most of them-don't have much theoretical foundation, and many are basically compendiums of opinions and suggestions unsupported by scientific evidence. Even so, many touch upon ideas that may well be worth the time it takes a busy manager to read them. Thus a real issue for contemporary managers is knowing how to analyze what they read in the popular press and how to separate the practical wheat from the pop culture chaff. This exercise gives you a little practice in doing just that.
Based on what you've learned from this exercise, how confident are you that Covey's quiz is an accurate measure of leadership ability? Explain.