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

    By Robert E. Kaplan and Robert B. Kaiser

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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 weaknesses. No wonder. The tools used to assess managers are not equipped to pick up on overplayed strengths—when more is not better.

    Nationally recognized leadership experts Bob Kaplan and Rob Kaiser have conducted thousands of assessments of senior executives designed to determine when their strengths serve them well—versus betray them. In this groundbreaking book, they draw on their data and practical experience to identify four fundamental leadership qualities, each positive in and of itself but each of which, if overemphasized, can seriously compromise your effectiveness. Most leaders, they’ve found, are “lopsided”—they favor certain qualities to the exclusion of others without realizing it. The trick is to keep all four in balance.

    Fear Your Strengths provides tools to help you become aware of your leadership leanings and excesses and provides insights for combatting the mindset that encourages them. It offers a practical psychology of leadership, a better way for leaders to calibrate their performance so that you can make sure your strengths don’t overpower you but rather move you—and your organization—forward.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBerrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.
    Release dateApr 1, 2013
    ISBN9781609949068
    Author

    Robert E. Kaplan

    Robert E. Kaplan is founding partner of Kaplan DeVries Inc., a foremost consulting and research firm that specializes in assessment for selection and development.

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      Paradoxical but true, our strengths often come from our fear of weaknesses and thus our strengths can become weaknesses. A Taoist balance is key.

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