Now, Discover Your Strengths
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Printer-friendly version| Title | Now, Discover Your Strengths |
| Publication Type | Book |
| Pub Year | 2001 |
| Authors | Buckingham, M., & Clifton D. O. |
| Publisher | Free Press |
| Keywords | authoritarianism, growth, identity, prestige, schadenfreude, strengths, weakness |
| Notes |
strengths"These are the two assumptions that guide the world's best managers: 1. Each person's talents are enduring and unique. 2. Each person's greatest room for growth is in the areas of his or her greatest strength." (p. 8) weakness"By confessing one of your weaknesses and announcing your intention to give it up, you may net the same outcome. Confess that you have lost the battle with your unfixable weakness, and you may well win the trust and respect of those around you." (p. 158) "For many of us our fear of our weaknesses seems to overshadow our confidence in our strengths. To use an analogy, if life is a game of cards and each of us has been dealt our hand of strengths and weaknesses, most of us assume that our weaknesses trump our strengths." (p. 122) prestige"If our one great insight is that all human beings crave prestige and that this craving must be channeled, not ignored or repressed, what is our one great error? Our one great error is thinking that all human beings crave the same kind of prestige--the prestige that comes with power....In highly authoritarian societies where each person's freedom of decision, of judgment, and of discretion is at the whim of the person above, the only prestige worth having is the prestige that comes with power over others." identity"Unsure of who we really are, we define ourselves by the knowledge we have acquired or the achievements we have racked up along the say. By defining ourselves in this way we become reluctant to change careers or learn new ways of doing things because then, in the new career, we would be forced to jettison our precious haul of expertise and achievement. We would have to jettison our identity." (p. 144) |
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