Summary of "Go Put Your Strengths to Work"
6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance
by Marcus Buckingham
• If you focus on fixing mistakes, you will not learn how to become excellent.
• Use “positive deviance” to measure how your team performs.
• Negative thoughts can block your ability to perform.
• You should be able to list more strengths than weaknesses. But most people find it easier to list their weaknesses.
• Strengths are what you enjoy doing and do extremely well.
• Make your job more enjoyable by emphasizing tasks that use your strengths.
• Stop doing a part of your job that you dislike and see if it makes any difference. If not, you’ve made a cheap improvement.
• Swap those parts of your job that use your weaknesses with someone for whom those tasks are a strength.
• Enlist your colleagues and boss in a series of conversations to help you work toward your strengths.
• Use a defined process to monitor how you use your strengths. Build good habits.
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