Posts Tagged ‘strengths’
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 [...]
What Makes a Great Leadership Team?
One of the core principles of strengths management is that people don’t need to be well-rounded to succeed. It helps, however, if teams are well-rounded, say the authors of Strengths Based Leadership. What Makes a Great Leadership Team – GMJ
