PART IIHow Exceptional Strengths Are Developed

This section of the book is its heart. While it requires some effort to discover your strengths, the real challenge is how to escalate a competency you possess that is hovering now at the 65th percentile up to the 90th percentile.

The following chapters build on Chapter 4 and the concept of nonlinear development, or cross-training. This philosophy pervades many of the developmental processes outlined in these successive chapters.

Chapter 6 describes how we should think about choosing a developmental target.

Chapter 7 begins at a place familiar to all of us. In it, we describe how people go about learning any skill, including those skills having to do with leadership.

Chapter 8 explains a key step ...

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