The Importance of Style in Leadership

There is 9% of overlap between how good people are at something and how good they actually think they are. Women are somewhat more likely to underestimate their skills, but much more likely to estimate their skills correctly with men being much more Likely to over estimate their skills across these domains. In some simple areas like singing talent, you don't need to be an expert or to have a sophisticated psychometric test to evaluate whether somebody can sing or not. But when it comes to displaying your skills or talents for being a leader, an executive or a management consultant, the average judge or raider doesn't have a grounding or a solid baseline to evaluations them.