OL140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Gallup (Company), Positive Psychology, Skill
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A leader needs to know his strengths, as a carpenter knows his tools, or a physician knows the instruments at her disposal. What great leaders have in common is that each truly knows his or her strengths - and can call on the right strength at the right time. An attribute or quality of an individual that accounts for successful performance. Positive features of ourselves that make us effective and help us flourish. A lot of psychological research focuses on what is wrong with people. Enter: positive psychology, research by the gallup organization. The scientific study of what makes life most worth living. The quest for leadership, therefore, is first an inner quest to discover who you are and what you care about, and it"s through this process of self-examination that you find the awareness needed to lead. Know what you are good at and practice to strengthen; know what others are good at and build a complementary team.
