Chapter 5. Managing Executive Skills in Others
FACING EXECUTIVE SKILLS WEAKNESSES in others is sometimes more difficult than facing weaknesses in yourself. Whereas the earlier chapters dealt with your opportunities to leverage your own Executive Skills strengths and weaknesses, this chapter and Chapter 6 focus on leveraging the skills in others.
When dealing with your own strengths and weaknesses, you can be realistic about what you might be able to accomplish. You can control the amount of personal effort or sacrifice you’re willing to put up with and target how much you expect to improve, even if just enough to get by.
When it comes to others, however, many executives, managers, departments, and even entire organizations tend to want to help someone ...
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