June 2012
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
5h 7m
English
book
How to Be Exceptional: Drive Leadership Success By Magnifying Your Strengths
by John Zenger, Joseph Folkman, Sherwin, Barbara Steel
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CHAPTER 9Building Strengths at Work
Integrating On-the-Job Activities into Your Growth as a Leader
As we continue to explore various ways in which strengths may be developed, we now address an extremely important opportunity. It is the element that has possibly the highest potential to actually escalate a leader’s strengths in the near term. Yet it is the one that we probably do least deliberately and least well and for which the least research has been conducted. It is the basic idea that valuable development can take place on the job and that work itself is a huge developmental opportunity if only managed properly.
Setting the Goal of Becoming an Excellent Leader
The realm of developing leadership skills includes one special challenge. The ...