The coach doesn't have to play the sport as well as you do. They have to watch you and get you to be your best.
An effective executive builds on strengths - their own strengths, the strengths of superiors, colleagues, subordinates, and on the strength of the situation.
The gross size of our talent inventories is less important than the net use of our talents?
You will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses.
My job is not to be easy on people. My job is to take these great people we have and to push them and make them even better.
The use of talent is far more important than the possession of talent.
I've known people who thought that reaching their potential would come from shoring up their weaknesses. But do you know what happens when you spend all your time working on your weaknesses and never developing your strengths? If you work really hard, you might claw your way all the way to mediocrity! But you'll never get beyond it.
That is the culture at Deloitte: To make sure we are all maximizing the capabilities that we have.
Too many companies waste time trying to eliminate their employees' weaknesses when, in fact, they should concentrate on developing their strengths.
Talents used are talents multiplied.
Ignore your mistakes. The number one thing to worry about is -Am I doing what I'm good at?
No matter if you're just starting out or if you are at the peak of your career, the more you work in your strength zone, the more successful you will be.
CEOs the world over are fond of pointing to their workforce and saying "Our people are our greatest asset." And yet today, only two out of ten people think their assets are being well used at work.
Found a good voice and took advantage of it. Each of my specialties was like a prospector discovering a vein of gold. I worked each until the vein was exhausted.
