CHAPTER 2
Self-Awareness: Enhancing Strategic Leader Development
Make progress, my brothers; examine yourselves honestly again and again. . . . Do not be content with what you are. . . . Always add something more, keep moving forward, always make progress.
—ST. AUGUSTINE, SERMON 169
Leader development programs that result in enhanced self-awareness can be one of an organization’s most difficult and yet most rewarding efforts. The importance of this challenge is that leaders have significant effects on the competitive advantage of organizations.1 Organizations that develop leaders are simply better than those that focus their emphasis elsewhere.2 Optimizing strategic leadership development, therefore, provides the fundamental ...
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