Why read Fear Your Strengths?

Book cover of Fear Your Strengths: What You Are Best at Could Be Your Biggest Problem

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Once you’ve discovered your strengths, you need to discover something else: your strengths can work against you.

Many leaders know this on some intuitive level, and they see it in others. But they don’t see it as clearly in themselves. Mainly, they think of leadership development as working on their…

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Ron Ashkenas

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It’s not easy to reduce complexity and drive simplification with your team or organization.

To do so you need to become the best leader you can be. For many managers this means working on their deficiencies, bolstering their weaknesses, and trying as hard as possible to learn new behaviors.

What Kaplan and Kaiser recommend in Fear Your Strengths however is not to focus first on weaknesses but rather to start development by becoming aware of strengths that you might be overdoing.

This is an incredibly simple, but counter-intuitive approach to leadership development. In essence, it suggests that leaders often get…

From Ron's list on simplifying your organization.