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Welcome to Soundview's summary in brief of Unusually Excellent: The Necessary Nine Skills
for the Practice of Great Leadership written by John Hamm.
Hamm has led investments in many successful high-growth companies as a partner at several
Bay Area venture capital firms. He has also been a CEO and a CEO advisor and executive
coach.
In Unusually Excellent, Hamm positions himself as a coach to leaders who can benefit from
revisiting the fundamentals of their leadership practices. His intent, we learn, is to realign
leaders with what made them successful in the past. By getting them to revisit what
he calls the nine essentials of leadership, Hamm intends to help leaders move from being
good leaders to becoming great ones.
The nine essentials provide the framework for Unusually Excellent. There are three overarching
categories. Credibility earns the right to lead. Within this category are the essential
skills of being compelling, trustworthy and authentic. Competence earns respect. Under
this category are the skills of leading people, strategy and execution. And lastly, Consequence
earns reputation. Under this category are the essential skills of a leader's decision-making,
communication and impact.
Great leaders understand the need to model these essentials in their day-to-day leadership
behaviors. We learn when these essentials are working together in a consistent manner,
over the course of a career, that this is what creates unusually excellent leaders.
Unusally Excellent is summarized by Soundview Executive Book Summaries with permission from
the publisher, Jossey-Bass.
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