Where Leadership Development Goes Wrong: the Research

Dr. D. Scott DeRue believes organizations routinely get leadership development wrong, and, he believes that this is for a number of reasons.  Among the deterrents to organizations getting it right is the relentless pressure on today's senior executives for immediate performance and quick gains, another he describes as "our deeply held belief in innate talent" versus developing capabilities and learned mastery. In addition, a common obstacle is that the responsibility for leaders' professional development is often (inappropriately) placed with human resources rather than with the leaders themselves.

DeRue believes that more emphasis should be placed on teaching both emerging leaders and continuously learning senior leaders how to be more self-directed and proactive about their own leadership development. And, he believes that in teaching leaders how to more effectively learn from their experiences, we will create more empowered and stronger leaders and better organizations.

Join us tonight as Lisa Pasbjerg, executive coach and CEO of Focused Coaching, LLC, a leadership development firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan interviews this young, focused and already highly esteemed faculty member at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business. And listen in as Scott shares with us what he has learned from his current research about how leaders and teams best adapt, lead, learn and develop over time.