Fear Your Strengths » leaders http://fearyourstrengths.com Fri, 31 Jan 2014 17:31:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Are Strengths Really all Leaders Need? http://fearyourstrengths.com/too-good-to-be-true/ http://fearyourstrengths.com/too-good-to-be-true/#comments Fri, 01 Mar 2013 11:34:09 +0000 admin http://fearyourstrengths.com/?p=94 The latest fad in leadership, “strengths-based development,” gives managers the seductive advice to play to their strengths and don’t waste time trying to fix weaknesses. But this dangerous philosophy contains plenty of half-truths and pseudo-science about how managers develop and become great leaders. Rob Kaiser explains how the strengths fad may also be partially to blame for the go-go, gaga mentality that spun the global economy out of control in this Editorial in Chief Learning Officer.

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