Download Fear Your Strengths: What You Are Best at Could Be Your Biggest Problem AudioBook Free
Once you've uncovered your strengths, you will need to discover something else: Your advantages could work against you. Many leaders know this on some intuitive level, plus they view it in others. However they don't view it as clearly in themselves. Mainly, they think of leadership development as focusing on their weaknesses. No surprise. The tools used to assess managers aren't equipped to pick up on overplayed advantages - when more is not better. Nationally regarded leadership experts Bob Kaplan and Rob Kaiser have conducted thousands of assessments of older executives designed to determine when their advantages serve them well - versus betray them. On this groundbreaking audiobook, they sketch on the data and working experience to identify four fundamental leadership characteristics, each positive in and of itself but each of which, if overemphasized, can critically compromise your effectiveness. Most leaders, they've found, are "lopsided" - they favor certain characteristics to the exclusion of others without realizing it. The secret is to keep all in balance. Fear Your Strengths provides tools to help you become alert to your leadership leanings and excesses and insights for combatting the way of thinking that promotes them. It includes a practical mindset of leadership, a much better way for leaders to calibrate their performance so as to make sure your advantages don't overpower you but instead move you - and your organization - onward.
