Posts Tagged ‘strengths’
0302 | Marcus Buckingham
Marcus Buckingham is a key soloist in the strengths movement choir. He is a best-selling author, popular keynote speaker and business consultant who champions the idea that people and organizations reach peak performance by leveraging their strengths. In this interview, we discuss his latest project, StandOut, a combination book and strengths assessment that uses an [...]
Book Review: StandOut
Marcus Buckingham is a soloist in the strengths movement choir. He has been a mouthpiece for the idea since seemingly the very beginning. Marcus is a gifted communicator with a talent for understanding the need for rigorous research. Which is why when he finally decided to create a market a self-assessment, StandOut, it should peak [...]
Building the Strong Organization – New Paper in JSL
I’m pleased to announce the latest issue of the Journal of Strategic Leadership has been published. It features my article “Building the Strong Organizations: Exploring the Role of Organizational Design in Strengths-Based Leadership.” The article surveys the literature from the “strengths movement” with a special emphasis on Tom Rath and Barry Conchie’s idea of Strengths-Based [...]
shorts.002 | How Strengths-Based Individual Leadership Affects Teams
“When leading a group, should the leader pay differentiated attention to individual members and the group as a collective simultaneously?” This is the question raised by Joshua Wu, Anne Tsui, and Angelo Kinicki in a recent Academy of Management Journal publication. Their study of 70 work groups in eight companies found that successful team leaders manage the team, not the [...]
How Strengths-Based Leadership Affects Teams
“When leading a group, should the leader pay differentiated attention to individual members and the group as a collective simultaneously?” This is the question raised by Joshua Wu, Anne Tsui, and Angelo Kinicki in a recent Academy of Management Journal publication. Their study of 70 work groups in eight companies found that successful team leaders manage the team, not the [...]
