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Leading by example: Oglebay Norton CEO John Lauer appears in a best seller as an example of a democratic leader who listens to employees and encourages his executives to do the same.(Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power)(of Emotional Intelligence)(Brief Article)

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| September 01, 2002 | Smith, Miriam | COPYRIGHT 2009 Great Lakes Publishing Company. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

John Lauer admits he was once a boiling frog.

Lauer, 63, chairman and CEO of Oglebay Norton Co. in Cleveland, is profiled in the book, Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence.

The management book, which recently reached The Wall Street Journal The New York Times and USA Today best-seller lists, was written by Daniel Goleman, Annie McKee and Richard Boyatzis, chair of the Department of Organizational Behavior at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University.

Primal Leadership presents an analogy that if you drop a frog into boiling water, it will instinctively jump out. But if you put a frog in cool …

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