"Most people think they know what they..." - Quote by Peter Drucker
Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong... And yet, a person can perform only from strength.
More by Peter Drucker
“The critical question is not "How can I achieve?" but "What can I contribute?"”
“One cannot hire a hand; the whole man always comes with it.”
“A manager sets objectives - A manager organizes - A manager motivates and communicates - A manager, by establishing yardsticks, measures - A manager develops people.”
More on Self Awareness
“Know yourself, like yourself, be yourself.”
“The paradigm helps a person identify the thought system, which is almost always false, that is behind the rationale for the continuation of excuses. It helps them really look at excuses from an objective point of view and realize that everything they've been thinking is just as likely to be not true as it is to be true.”
“Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.”
More on Strengths
“Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.”
“You cannot build performance on weaknesses. You can build only on strengths.”
“The great mystery isn't that people do things badly but that they occasionally do a few things well. The only thing that is universal is incompetence. Strength is always specific! Nobody ever commented, for example, that the great violinist Jascha Heifetz probably couldn't play the trumpet very well.”