April 2023
Intermediate to advanced
450 pages
15h 22m
English
George Eliot pointed out that God gave Antonio Stradivari the talent he needed to be the world's violin-maker, but that nonetheless it was Antonio, and not God, who refined that skill and brought it to fruition. This chapter focuses on leader characteristics that are particularly susceptible to refinement.
Skills are defined as broadly applied, learned characteristics of leader performance. They are heavily affected by training, education, and practice. Skills are similar to traits in that they are broad; and they are similar to behaviors in that they are generally more directly observable than traits.
Although skills sometimes seem so broad as to be vague, ...
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