Play to Your Strengths

Even savvy organisations can make big mistakes, like expending precious resources of time, money and energy to repair a leader's weaknesses, only to achieve mediocrity. No leader achieves greatness by fixing a weakness; strengths lead to excellence. Based on their combined 50 years consulting to corporations, the authors turn the ineffective and misguided 'weakness' paradigm topsy-turvy and build a compelling argument for boosting strengths in all leaders. Leaders and managers whose plates are already overflowing with priorities, rising expectations and critical problems are neither inspired nor motivated to overcome weaknesses, especially when the payoff is negligible. PLAY TO YOUR STRENGTHS urges leaders to discover, engage and leverage strengths in themselves and others to achieve spectacular results. This is the first book providing hands-on, practical tools to identify and amplify strengths to improve engagement, high performance and satisfaction. This new system for developing leadership capacity builds self-esteem as it assists organisations in creating employee-development strategies that really work.