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The field of “leadership development” has overattended to leadership and underattended to development. An endless stream of books tries to identify the most important elements of leadership and help leaders to acquire these abilities. Meanwhile, we ignore the most powerful source of ability: our capacity (and the capacity of the people who work for us) to overcome, at any age, the limitations and blind spots of current ways of making meaning.
Immunity to Change
Robert Kegan, Lisa Laskow Lahey
WHEN THINKING OF the features of hyperthymia—high energy, elevated libido, workaholism, sense of humor, risk-taking, extraversion, sociability, marked ambition—few match the concept more closely than Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. As with many people with hyperthymic personality, Kennedy’s temperament allowed him to achieve great success in the business world, a success that he parlayed into political influence for himself and eventually his entire family.
A First-Rate Madness
Nassir Ghaemi
Diminishers underutilize people and leave capability on the table. 2. Multipliers increase intelligence in people and in organizations. People actually get smarter and more capable around them. 3. Multipliers leverage their resources. Corporations can get 2X more from their resources by turning their most intelligent resources into intelligence Multipliers.
Multipliers
Liz Wiseman and Greg McKeown
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