Thursday, April 16, 2015

Why do some leadership development efforts fail?

McKinsey & Company have a perspective. Their studies show that organizations can avoid the most common mistakes in leadership development and increase the odds of success by:

  • matching specific leadership skills and traits to the context at hand;
  • embedding leadership development in real work;
  • fearlessly investigating the mind-sets that underpin behavior; and,
  • monitoring the impact so as to make improvements over time.


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Nic