Leadership in Action - A Question of Leadership - To Improve, Should Leaders Focus Primarily on Building on Their Strengths, or on Correcting Their Weaknesses?

To improve, should leaders focus primarily on building on their strengths or on correcting their weaknesses?

RUSS S. MOXLEY

Moxley is director of nonprofit initiatives and a senior fellow at CCL in Greensboro. His background includes more than twenty-five years of diverse experience in management training and organizational development. He holds an M.Th. degree from Southern Methodist University.

One of the questions that has most fascinated and befuddled leaders and leadership theorists alike over the years is, Are leaders born or can leadership capacity be developed? In other words, Are leaders determined principally by nature or by nurture?

If one believes the latter answer to be true, a second set of questions arises: How can leadership ...