it’s easy to measure one’s proficiency in a technical skill (how many widgets you build, how many lines of code you’ve written), and it’s easy to count training courses and seminars to show how you’ve been ‘growing’ as a person and learning new things.  we know how to find experts.  we look for collegiate degrees.  we look for years of experience in a given field.  they may not exactly be great means of quantifying an ‘expert’ but they’re certainly given weight by many people.

but how do you measure leadership?
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