I just received the getAbstract book summary on the book, Go Put Your Strengths to Work. I find this concept of maximizing your strengths to be very interesting. If the summary moves you to read the book, great, but the point of my msg to you is how important it is to "maximize your strengths."
This is a concept that I first read about when studying Peter Drucker a few years back. It's an interesting concept and extremely sensible if you can get your arms around it. Many of us are constantly striving to eliminate our weaknesses - which takes a great deal of time and effort and often only gets us incremental gains. The results of maximizing our strengths can be magical.
Now, it would be a fairy tale if we tried to ignore our weaknesses, so something we've talked alot about is identifying one's "critical flaws" and "neutralizing" those - not trying to turn that weakness into a strength. Instead, just making sure the flaw doesn't hold us back. Think of the "tragic flaws" in Shakespeare's major characters. No matter what great things the character can accomplish, if he/she doesn't "neutralize" or manage the tragic flaw, it becomes the source of the downfall.
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Critical flaws huh? Let's start with that beard... ;)
Good to see you out in the blogosphere mon ami. I haven't read the summary you sent yet. I currently have a pile in front of me from Summary.com and am fascinated with the "Success Built to Last" entry. I thought it was going to be the original "Built to Last" that preceded "Good to Great", but it's not about companies at all ... just people. The only link is one of the authors was a co-author with Jim Collins on Built to Last so I guess he didn't mind that the titles are nearly identical.
It all starts with passion as you can imagine. Some snippets for you before signing off ...
- Enduringly successful people insist that success may never come without a compelling personal commitment to something you care about and would be willing to do without counting on wealth, fame, power or public acceptance as an outcome.
- The essential difference is that they've found something to do that matters to them and are so passionately engaged that they rise above the personality flaws that would otherwise hold them down.
- There is no more personal decision than to discover what is meaningful to you.
Greetings Bronx Bomber! Success Built to Last is the best of all those books. I know one of the authors. He's a great coach and mentor (sherpa) from down under. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I participated in some MasterCard management education sessions. Stuart Emery. Good people. Glad to see you joining me in this space, I am excited about the possibilities!
isnt "alot" two words???
K
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