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4. First and foremost, concentrate on your strengths. Put yourself where your strengths can produce results.
5. Second, work on improving your strengths. Analysis will rapidly show where you need to improve skills or acquire new ones. It will also show the gaps in your knowledge-and those can usually be filled. Mathematicians are born, but everyone can learn trigonometry.
6. Third, discover where your intellectual arrogance is causing disabling ignorance and overcome it. Far too many people especially people with great expertise in one area-are contemptuous of knowledge in other areas.
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Few questions to ask to know how I performš
1. Am I a Reader or Listener ?
2. How do I learn?
3. Do I work well with people or am I a loner?
4. If you do work well with people, you then must ask, in what relationship ?
5. Do I produce results as a decision maker or as an adviser?
6. Do I Perform well under stress , or do I need a highly structured and predictable environment?
7. Do I work best in a big organization or a small one ?
The conclusion bears repeating Do not try to change yourself - you are unlikely to succeed. But work hard to improve the way you perform .
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To answer it, they must address three distinct elements:
1. What does the situation require ?
2. Given my strengths, my way of performing, and my values, how can I make the greatest contribution to what needs to be done?
3. And finally,Ā What results have to be achieved to make a difference?
4. A plan usually cover no more than 18 months and still be reasonably clear and specificĀ
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