Fear your strengths : what you are best at could be your biggest problem / Robert E. Kaplan, Robert B. Kaiser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaplan, Robert E.

Contributor:

Kaiser, Robert B.

Series:

BK business book.

BK Business

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leadership.

Leadership--Psychological aspects.

Executive ability.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (121 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, Calif. : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, c2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Once you've discovered your strengths, you need to discover something else: your strengths can work against you. Many leaders know this on some intuitive level, and they see it in others. But they don't see it as clearly in themselves. Mainly, they think of leadership development as working on their weaknesses. No wonder. The tools used to assess managers are not equipped to pick up on overplayed strengths-when more is not better.Nationally recognized leadership experts Bob Kaplan and Rob Kaiser have conducted thousands of assessments of senior executives designed to determine when their stren

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1 Strengths Beget Weaknesses-In Two Very Different Ways; 2 The Yin-Yang Responsibilities of a Leader; 3 Mindset; 4 Dialing Back; 5 The Complete Leader; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; About the Authors

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed April 10, 2013).

ISBN:

9781299282810

1299282814

9781609949051

1609949056

OCLC:

830324136