COMPLEX CHALLENGES
Becoming an effective senior leader involves transitioning through a series of increasingly difficult and complex skills. The Canadian organizational psychologist Elliott Jaques explained how increases in organizational complexity demand a greater ability to mentally track several variables and imagine further into the future.
Hence, as managers deal with greater complexity at each stage in their careers, they need to be armed with a more widely developed skill set and a broader perspective for viewing complex problems and anticipating the consequences of various solutions.
The strengths-based approach, by downplaying weaknesses, excuses individual leaders from the hard work of development. And it overlooks what the organization ...
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