All Wrapped Up

Now that Gen Xers are in charge, you can say goodbye to the corporate stereotypes of barking bosses and inflexible upper echelons. Valuing understanding and integrity above supreme power, Xers are proving to be leaders for the new millennium. So which skills do they value most in an ideal leader?

• Ability to see situations from others' point of view: 94%

• Getting along well with others: 90%

• High personal integrity: 85%

• Empowering/encouraging others to act: 79%

• Bringing people of different backgrounds together: 77%

• Setting high standards/holding people to them: 75%

• Setting a direction/persuading others to follow it: 61%

Source: Peter D. Hart Research Associates Inc.

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This article was originally published in the February 1999 print edition of Entrepreneur with the headline: All Wrapped Up.