The Revolution of Strengths

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The Revolution of Strengths

I remember in the late 90, the directors of the comp Construction which was his Legal Counsel at the time, sent to test the administrative staff and workers to identify their strengths and weaknesses in order to assess the situation getting the job profile of each, and thus have additional information to decide who stayed and who went to the company.

There was a belief in General Management, for which they were working for them could help improve their performance if they knew their weaknesses and see if they were able to correct them. Well, after one-time-ten years after I learned that the same company from which I retired in 2005, had not grown and not been renewed on technologies constructive refers simply had stagnated. Only later I realized that I could give the test to which he called Foda was targeted on a single perspective: "to identify weaknesses and correct them and prevent their recurrence" perhaps because he had the belief that we learn from our mistakes;
however, which was stated in the mentality of the staff was not what was expected for the benefit of competition, because "it was easier to correct a weakness on which to build a fortress" and over time the company stopped growing.

What is achieved success: building on its strengths or correcting their weaknesses?

Today the world is going on a change of approach on this dilemma and sail across all fields of human endeavor. The failure and success are not opposing phenomena are simply different, so if you want to learn what they should not be based on the experiences of failure, then forward, although perhaps a waste of time. But if you want to learn what it needs to be done, just because of the excellent success stories we can learn lessons of success and therefore we must study them. Or does he think they should study the failures? . Certainly it is always instructive to know how he went into bankruptcy this or that person, but what is not possible, is stopping in this negative experience because it is a waste of energy and time.

Amplify our strengths without simply correct our weaknesses

Looking forward, what we should do is learn to build our daily tasks, our work, our business, our activities around our strengths, week after week, despite all the reactions of the world around us. This requires designing our own discipline and put it into practice, so that gradually end up doing what we like most of Life.

"Faced with the indifference of the world around him, has two alternatives: either resign themselves to a life in which their strengths are squandered, or learn to give them importance.

Marcus Buckingham