Strengths Based Leadership

If you spend your life trying to be good at everything, you will never be great at anything.

Although individuals need not be well-rounded, teams should be.

Perhaps the ultimate test of a leader is not what you are able to do in the here and now - but instead what continues to grow long after you're gone

What great leaders have in common is that each truly knows his or her strengths - and can call on the right strength at the right time.

If you focus on people’s weaknesses, they lose confidence.

followers have a very clear picture of what they want and need from the most influential leaders in their lives: trust, compassion, stability, and hope

One challenge is that our ability to progress in our career is often determined by our effectiveness in responding to near-term needs. When high value is placed on solving these kinds of problems, it creates a culture in which leaders spend little or no time thinking about what could be done because they receive more accolades for simply doing what needs to be done.

As legendary investor Warren Buffett put it, by definition, "A leader is someone who can get things done through other people:

If you focus on people’s weaknesses, they lose confidence.” At a very basic level, it is hard for us to build self-confidence when we are focused on our weaknesses instead of our strengths.

the ultimate test of a leader is not what you are able to do in the here and now — but instead what continues to grow long after you’re gone.