Hidden Strengths: Unleashing the Crucial Leadership Skills You Already Have

working mainly on your strengths can ultimately make you weaker, they argue - you need to continually add new skills, not rely on what youre already good at. and while most people assume that means they should try to turn their weaknesses into usable skills, the sindells say that it takes too much time and effort - the roi just isnt there. its in the neglected middle skills, neither strengths nor weaknesses, that the most potent development opportunities lie. theyre close enough to being strengths that putting your energy there can offer a powerful payoff.

Using assessments, exercises, and case studies, the Sindells help you identify your most promising middle skills and create a plan to turn them into strengths. In todays work environment, not growing and stretching yourself translates into lack of innovation, stagnation, and obsolescence. Relying upon strengths is like relying upon training wheels - at a certain point you need to take them off in order to improve and grow.