CIPD 2011: Unleash uniqueness to drive innovation

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