The Crux of Leadership Development

Abandoned baby polar bear is 'better off dead' than raised in zoo?




“The crux of leadership development that works is self-directed learning: intentionally developing or strengthening an aspect of who you are or who you want to be, or both.”


~Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis & Annie McKee


Primal Leadership (Harvard Business School Press)

Tailor Feedback to the Person

Panda City

Be sensitive. If the person's life orientation is to prevent disaster, stick with suggestions for improvemnt to help them achieve that goal. If individuals will be devastated by negative feedback, accentuate the positive aspects of their performance.

~ John H. Zenger & Joseph Folkman

Zenger, J.H. & Folman, J. 2004. The Handbook for Learders: 24 Lessons for Extraordinary Leadership,United States: Mc Graw Hill. (p. 42).

Push The Self to Improve

Orang Utan


Possesing even one strength causes performance ratings to imrove drastically.

~ John H. Zenger & Joseph Folkman

Zenger, J.H. & Folman, J. 2004. The Handbook for Learders: 24 Lessons for Extraordinary Leadership,United States: Mc Graw Hill. (p. 24).

Find Trustworthy Sources of Feedback

Voices of Wilderness

It's easy to get blindsided by our own weaknesses.

We need people we can trust who will tell us the truth about ourselves.

Don't shy away from giving good feedback to others.

~ John H. Zenger & Joseph Folkman

Zenger, J.H. & Folman, J. 2004. The Handbook for Learders: 24 Lessons for Extraordinary Leadership,
United States: Mc Graw Hill. (p. 42).

Treat for Success

Puerto Rican Parrot Amazona Vittata

If we treat people as they are, we make them worse,

but if we treat them as they ought to be,

we help them become what are they capable of becoming.

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Not to Know...

Red Panda

Scientific name: Ailurus fulgens

Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse

~African Proverbs

Smile & Change

Some people grin and bear it. Others smile and change it.

~Unknown

The Real Fault

Is the tapir an endangered species?

The real fault is to have faults and do not try to mend them

~Confucius

New Definition of Management

Endangered Species : Koala

The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.

~Agha Hasan Abedi

Key of Developing Great Leadership

Platypus

Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weaknes, but by the presence of clear strengths. The key to developing great leadership is to build strengths.

~ John H. Zenger & Joseph Folkman

Zenger, J.H. & Folman, J. 2004. The Handbook for Learders: 24 Lessons for Extraordinary Leadership,

United States: Mc Graw Hill. (p. ix).

Leadership vs Character

Meerkat Manor

Everything about great leadership radiates from character

~Dave Ulrich