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How can you make your best contribution at work?  Play to your strengths.   The sooner you move to your strengths, the sooner you improve your contribution.   Find your strengths and offer them to your team.  It’s how to be your best.  It’s how you’ll feel stronger each day.  In Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance, Marcus Buckingham writes about volunteering your strengths to your team.
A Good Team Member Volunteers Their Strengths to the Team Most of the Time
Buckingham writes that good …

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Are you a part of the strengths movement?  The strengths movement is a shift from focusing on weaknesses to focusing on strengths.  The idea is that you’ll gain more by improving your strengths than improving your weaknesses. In Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance, Marcus Buckingham traces the source of the strengths movement.
Effective Executives Build on Strengths
According to Buckingham, Peter Drucker wrote that effective executives focused on strengths:
Some will identify Peter Drucker, citing his seminal 1966 book, The Effective Executive, in …

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I’m a fan of periodic experiments for finding new ways to improve your mind and body.  My latest experiment is shedding ten years of age-related damage in ten weeks based on the book, Shed 10 Years in 10 Weeks, by Dr. Julian Whitaker and Carol Colman.  Given how much heart disease, cancer, … etc there is in today’s world, it won’t hurt me to put more techniques under my belt.  I told some friends and colleagues about my experiment and they wanted me to share my notes, so …