Go into a bookstore and ask for a book on leadership, and they will point you to an entire section wherein they keep the tomes highlighting the leadership styles and practices of Jack Welsh, Attila the Hun, Ulysses S. Grant, and hundreds of other supposedly sagacious leaders of yore. Now some of these hundreds were, indeed, great leaders in their time, but their styles are of little use to the reader wanting to become a better leader in their 21st Century organization.