Building on Strengths
Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. (attr. Albert Einstein) In both business and education, I’ve noticed an unfortunate tendency to focus only on looking for problems or areas of weakness and then finding ways to fix these. As a cognitive psychologist and educator, I have found it to be much more efficacious and rewarding to look for strengths as the cornerstone upon which to b