Presented by:

Sanaullah Syed Mohammad Ahmed Najm-us-Sehar

 The Conventional Wisdom

• Discover and capitalize on your strengths.

• Don’t waste too much time on overcoming flaws.

• Its better to focus on what you do best.

• No matter how hard you work on certain weaknesses, the logic goes,
chances are that you’ll make only marginal progress.
 Performance Reviews
• People take their strengths too far and don’t even realize it.

• They become impatient with their colleagues and want them to keep up.

• Dividing qualities into strengths and weaknesses implicitly ignores the

strengths overdone.

• Leadership development tools such as 360s don’t show you when a

strength taken too far has become a weakness.

• In short, taken too far, your strengths can become your weaknesses.
 The Costs of Strengths Overused
• Overused strengths can affect the tem performance.

• Overdoing hurts our effectiveness just as much as underdoing it.

• Overplaying a strength can also lead to diminished capacity on the

opposite pole.
Case Study