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Go Put Your Strengths to Work:
…if your strengths are those activities that make you feel strong, then the person best qualified to identify them… is you.
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088 |
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Go Put Your Strengths to Work:
…what no one can do better than you is identify which activities you love and which you loathe.
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089 |
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Go Put Your Strengths to Work:
Pay close attention to your appetites. Capture them, clarify them, and outstanding performance will follow.
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089 |
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Go Put Your Strengths to Work:
…to identify your own strengths, pay close attention to how specific activities make you feel. Your feelings reveal your strengths.
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090 |
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Go Put Your Strengths to Work:
…don’t move yourself into a role that is close to but not actually in your strengths zone, no matter how powerful your urge to do so. It will soon frustrate you.
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Go Put Your Strengths to Work:
One of the best ways to make your strengths central to your role is to generate new ideas around it, and then take it upon yourself to share these ideas with your colleagues.
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Go Put Your Strengths to Work:
Like enemies, weaknesses are more dangerous when they are quietly corrupting your work and life.
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Go Put Your Strengths to Work:
Avoidance, searching for someone else to do it, and having to brace yourself: all good clues that you lack the instinct for it.
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Go Put Your Strengths to Work:
…because your boss or society or even yourself think it’s something that you should do is a recipe for both disappointment and poor performance.
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Go Put Your Strengths to Work:
Organizations tend to be outstanding at starting new projects, procedures, activities, and work streams, and terrible at stopping them.
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