On the "science" of leadership.........................

     The word that is too often missing from leadership studies is "judgment."  Everybody involved in the business is desperate to appear scientific:  academics because they want to get research grants and consultants because they want to prove that they are selling something more than just instinct.  But judgment is what matters most, and it is hard to measure.  It takes judgment to resist getting carried away with one quality (such as decisiveness) or one measure of success (such as share price).  It takes judgment to know when to modulate your virtues and when to pull out all the stops.  Unfortunately judgment is in rather shorter supply than leadership versatility indices.
-Schumpeter, as excerpted from  Too much of a good thing