In this book leading scholar‎,‎ author‎,‎ and consultant Dave Ulrich provides a leadership capital index a thorough way of assessing how the quality of a company‎'‎s leadership impacts its value ‎(‎e‎.‎ g‎.‎ like a Moody‎'‎s index for leadership‎)‎‎.‎ Drawing on ten years of work Ulrich finally offers an alternative to the instinctive and subjective approaches people have been forced to take in the past‎.‎ In successive chapters‎,‎ Ulrich develops multiple dimensions of this leadership capital index‎,‎ including leaders‎'‎ personal abilities ‎(‎their personal proficiency‎,‎ strategic proficiency‎,‎ execution proficiency‎,‎ people proficiency‎,‎ and leadership brand proficiency‎)‎ and organizational leadership capabilities ‎(‎cultural capability‎,‎ talent management‎,‎ performance accountability‎,‎ information management systems‎,‎ and work process‎)‎‎.‎ The result is a ground breaking book that opens up a major new area of understanding and analysis of business and leadership‎.‎ Everyone agrees that much of the success of any company depends on the quality of its leadership‎.‎ Yet there is has been no rigorous‎,‎ comprehensive way of rating leadership quality as it relates to company market value until now‎.‎