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How to be exceptional : drive leadership success by magnifying your strengths / John Zenger [and others].

New York : McGraw-Hill, ©2012.

xvii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

How to Be Exceptional explains how to pinpoint your best leadership traits and choose the right development target for yourself, use feedback and action-learning on the job to elevate your strengths, apply Zenger Folkman's revolutionary "cross-training" method to escalate your leadership competencies into the top 90th percentile, and ensure that your fully developed strengths are sustainable by building follow-through into your development plan. When you magnify your leadership competencies to the level of exceptional, employee engagement increases, productivity rises, and profitability soars. Learn how to make your business and career dreams a reality.

Leadership.

Executive ability.

Zenger, John H.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-220) and index.

Organizations flourish with strong leaders -- Why emphasize strengths? -- Strengths can be developed -- Leadership cross-training -- Benefits from developing strengths -- Where to start -- Transitioning from poor performance to good -- The role of feedback in developing leadership strengths -- Building strengths at work -- Sustaining strengths -- Individual contributors -- Getting out of the pit -- Can strengths be taken too far? -- Building strengths with multi-rater feedback -- Are leaders born or made? -- History of the strengths movement.

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