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Strengths-based development: is it weakening the leadership pipeline?

When a heavy hitter in the world of executive development says that "I am convinced that strengths-based leadership is a US bred contagion with negative implications for global business", it's worth asking what's going on?

After all, Gallup and its strengths-based philosophy, and the positive psychology movement of work-place happiness, seemed to point the way to a corporate world in which leaders and professionals went from surviving to thriving. Why now the criticism?

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Strengths-based development has much to offer. For some individuals at some points in their careers it is the best game in town. But it also incorporates potential career risks for emerging leaders, and hazards for organisations that in the next decade require greater levels of leadership versatility and diversity to build succession resilience.

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Article written: 08/06/2010

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