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Have you noticed how many top leaders were once actors, athletes, or other performers? And how few graduated from traditional academic leadership programs? Actors, athletes, and other performers have become U.S. presidents, governors, senators, congress members, mayors, founders of well-known companies, and more. Love or hate actor-and- athlete-turned-president Ronald Reagan, he ranks near the top of many presidential polls. Meanwhile, the only MBA president, George W. Bush, ranks near the bottom. Performers-turned-leaders include Arnold Schwarzenegger, Oprah Winfrey, Muhammad Ali, Sean Combs, Jesse Ventura, Jackie Chan, Al Franken, Jane Fonda, and others—not mere trendsetters. Besides not taking traditional leadership programs, many left or failed out of school. By contrast, few politicians or business leaders become performers or athletes. What’s going on? Why do top leadership programs produce few top leaders? Do traditional leadership programs actually produce middle managers? If so, what are our organizations and society losing by relying on them? More importantly for leadership students and educators, what works that we’re missing? Leadership Step by Step is the first book to find what works in other fields and bring together an effective new way to teach and learn leadership beyond the predominant method of lecture, cases, and biography. It leads readers to develop leadership skills, beliefs, and experiences through a comprehensive, integrated progression of exercises that I have tested and refined with hundreds of students at Columbia and New York University (NYU), online, and with private clients. I have also presented at Harvard, Princeton, MIT, INSEAD, and other top schools. I first learned that schools taught leadership at Columbia Business School, where I got my MBA. Before then, I figured that you were born a leader or you were not. Business school taught me leadership principles, but implementing them after graduation felt like starting from scratch. Trying, say, to negotiate armed with principles but not experience still crippled me with anxiety. Teaching me about leading didn’t teach me to lead. After graduating, I consumed leadership books, videos, courses, and any literature I found. They overwhelmingly focused on facts, information, and principles, too, without actionable instruction on how to develop skills and experiences. While facts didn’t hurt, what leader became great from knowing more facts? Facts are a commodity that computers handle better. How performers from other fields led without leadership education remained unexplained. Two other fields showed me how to teach people to lead. The first was how we teach performers in other fields. The second was experiential, project-based learning—a teaching method tracing its roots to John Dewey and earlier.