Is Biden or Palin the Strongest Leader for U.S. Vice President?

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Tue Sep 2, 2008 3:25pm EDT 

Top Leadership Development Firm Asks Public to Rate Leadership Traits of the
Presidential Candidates and Running Mates at NextNationalCEO.com

MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Visitors to NextNationalCEO.com can
now rate the leadership traits of vice presidential candidates Senator Joe
Biden and Governor Sarah Palin in addition to their presidential running
mates, Senator Obama and Senator McCain. Personnel Decisions International
(PDI), a global leadership consulting firm with decades of experience working
with CEOs and senior executives, developed NextNationalCEO.com to let visitors
rate the candidates on some of the same leadership traits that PDI consultants
use to rate CEO candidates at today's top companies.
    "Most voters evaluate the candidates on where they stand on the issues,"
said Stuart Crandell, Ph.D., senior vice president and executive consultant at
PDI. "We developed this website to widen the lens on how we evaluate people in
leadership positions to look specifically at their leadership qualities
separate from the issues and ideals they represent."
    The site lets users rate Biden, McCain, Obama and Palin on ten
characteristics that PDI consultants use when assessing CEO candidates.
Currently, in order of importance, the ten traits are vision, insightful
judgment, trustworthiness, gets things done, inspires others, good judge of
people, influences others, courage, confidence and energy. Obama is currently
leading in all of the ten traits.
    PDI has been working with top executives and CEOs at major companies for
over 40 years. PDI serves 80 percent of Fortune 100 firms and uses in-depth
data and research to determine which characteristics are critical for success
in the top spots.
    Users rate each candidate on this list of characteristics, then rate the
importance of each characteristic. Visitors to the website can instantly view
real-time results to compare candidates.
    Visitors can rate the presidential candidates and their running mates now
at http://www.NextNationalCEO.com and should come back to the site often to
see updated real-time results.
    ABOUT PERSONNEL DECISIONS INTERNATIONAL
    Personnel Decisions International (PDI) is a global leadership consulting
firm with distinctive expertise in building leadership talent that provides
real competitive advantage.  With 30 offices around the globe, PDI enables the
world's leading organizations to make consistently effective talent decisions
about leaders. http://www.personneldecisions.com
SOURCE  Personnel Decisions International

Jen Jorgensen, +1-404-266-7538, jjorgensen@webershandwick.com, for Personnel
Decisions International
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