Your Strengths Are Your Success
There is a diminishing return when we work in our weaknesses. Working in our strengths gives us the best opportunity to win at our endeavors.
Root of Success
Truths
- Each of us has innate strengths
- Many of us do not live fully into these strengths
- The language in business is not as fully developed as in sports
The Gallup Organization interviewed more than 2 million people worldwide to understand what made people successful. This was a study worldwide which led to one simple finding across countries, industries and cultures. Successful people work in their strengths. Unsuccessful people work in their weaknesses. The tragedy is that many people do not know their strengths or buy into the myth that if they work hard enough they can make their weakness into a strength. The truth is the weakness will be mediocre at best.
Know Your Strengths
"Most Americans do not know what their strengths are. When you ask them, they look at you with a blank stare, or they respond in terms of subject knowledge, which is the wrong answer." –Peter Drucker
What if you could game your business life? If you could do the thing or things you are better than a thousand other people, what impact would that have on your results? What about on your fulfillment?
- Knowing your strengths as well as of those you work with in key roles will enable:
- Results that grow your business
- Passion in your work
- Fulfillment and a sense of mission
- Higher efficiency
- Better play between teammates
- Less management and more execution
The inefficiency of people in the wrong places in a business has consistent wear and tear on a business. The key to success for anyone in business is to know specifically what their strengths are and pick the opportunities that leverage these on a consistent basis. This is execution. Leadership requires helping others succeed. This means identifying their talents, both overt and latent, and placing them in their sweet spot.