You have now finished reading the leadership book of your choice and formed an idea about: 1. Book’s Intellectual Value, 2. Book’s Scientific Rigor, 3. Book’s Value for Leadership, 4. Readability.
This assignment takes your competency one step further. Knowing that it takes at least two years to write and publish a book, we can safely assume that there has been additional research published after the book was released.
Your Task
Select a specific focus area of the book you have reported on and find out what research has been conducted recently on the topic in the past few years, as well as, if anybody has any real measurements on the issue, what are the results of those measurements (proxy measurements are OK as well). Remember the exercise we had on the “What are your weaknesses” paper?
It had no data, no reference to other work, and it was not published in a scientific journal. This time we are looking for something more scientific. Start with https://scholar.google.com/ (Links to an external site.) and search for academic journals.
