Lao Tzu on Leadership

"A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, when his aim is fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves." - Lao Tzu

The problem with this type of leaders lies in spotting them because, by their very nature, they rarely attract attention to themselves. Perhaps one way is to track the performance of individuals and the projects they work in to identify the people who work on the most number of successful projects as a percentage of the total number of projects they work on. This could be used as one of the metrics of evaluation.

It would work very well in large organisations where people tend to stay for a long time such as bureaucracies. This is just a hypothesis of mine.