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How to Be Exceptional: Drive Leadership Success By Magnifying Your Strengths
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How to Be Exceptional: Drive Leadership Success By Magnifying Your Strengths

by John Zenger, Joseph Folkman, Sherwin, Barbara Steel
June 2012
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
5h 7m
English
McGraw-Hill
Content preview from How to Be Exceptional: Drive Leadership Success By Magnifying Your Strengths

CHAPTER 4Leadership Cross-Training

The Revolutionary Approach to Developing Leadership Skills

Can Leadership Skills Be Acquired?

Nearly every discipline has its areas of disagreement and conflict. In the world of leadership development, one of the most deep-rooted conflicts occurs between two groups: those who believe that leadership is the result of talents that only some people possess and those who believe that leadership skills can be acquired. We have observed that even among the first group—those who emphasize the importance of talents—there are shades of opinion. Some believe these talents are largely genetically determined. Even more believe that such talents are largely in place by the time a person finishes the teenage years; they seem ...

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