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

CHAPTER 5Benefits from Developing Strengths

Why Focusing on Weaknesses Doesn’t Create Exceptional Leadership

Improving leadership effectiveness always has a positive payoff regardless of how it is done. Most leaders are conditioned to use the traditional approach of fixing weaknesses to improve their leadership ability. Increasingly, more leaders are shifting to a strengths-based approach of leadership development in order to raise their effectiveness. In this chapter, we examine the additional payoffs that result when leaders focus on building strengths.

Philosophy of Improvement

Most leaders have a philosophy about personal improvement. This philosophy is rarely explicit but easily recognizable when people go about creating a personal improvement ...