Positive Leadership: Why Leadership Development Programmes Often Fail

This is an excellent article from McKinsey on why leadership development programmes often fail -http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/leading_in_the_21st_century/why_leadership-development_programs_fail

The key reasons?

1. Overlooking context
2. Decoupling reflection from real work
3. Underestimating mind-sets 
4. Failing to measure results

Companies can avoid the most common mistakes in leadership development and increase the odds of success by matching specific leadership skills and traits to the context at hand; embedding leadership development in real work; fearlessly investigating the mind-sets that underpin behaviour; and monitoring the impact so as to make improvements over time.