Here’s How Google Knows in Less Than 5 Minutes if Someone Is a Great Leader

A short column by Jeff Haden published in Inc. “After years of study, Google uses a few simple questions to identify the company’s best leaders.”

Since leadership is more art than science, how can you objectively determine if someone is a great leader?

That’s a good question, one Google has spent considerable time and effort trying to answer. It only makes sense that one of the most analytical companies in the world puts some of its analytical horsepower into determining how great teams are built and led.

Over time, the company identified the key behaviors of its best team managers. Then Google began asking team members to answer the following questions on a scale of 1 (strongly agree) to 5 (strongly disagree).

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