CIPD 2011: Unleash uniqueness to drive innovation

Management guru Marcus Buckingham pans formulaic models

Employers strangle innovation when they impose standard models of competency and strategy rather than playing to people’s personal strengths, said Marcus Buckingham yesterday.

In the closing keynote of the CIPD conference, management guru Buckingham explained that innovative techniques that work for one leader don’t necessarily work for another because such tactics play to a set of personal strengths or “algorithms”.

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