You want to get better.
You want to help the people in your organization get better.
I think you have two choices;
Choice #1 — Focus on your bright spots, your strengths, and keep working on those, getting even better as the weeks and months and years go by.
Choice #2 – While continuing to do what you do well, focus on what you don’t do well – on ways that you are slowing yourself, and your organization, down. Correct these deficiencies; learn to overcome genuine deficiencies.
There’s a lot written about the first. Many would argue that that is what we need to focus on.
But, I wonder… think about a good NFL team. Think about the weekly review of the game just played – the way the team members watch game film. I suspect that for every comment on “look at how well you do this,” there might be a few comments like – “you’ve got to correct this.”
Admittedly, a person needs some pretty healthy self-confidence and self-esteem to work on deficiencies without being crushed.
But, I think this – real breakthrough progress comes with fixing some things that need to be fixed. You know: “find the bottlenecks (in your life, and in your organization) – and then remove them.”
In other words, sometimes (many times) focusing on your strengths and bright spots may not be enough.
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This comment ended up in the wrong blog entry – it belongs here 🙂 When you play a role, you need to be the best you can be at that role, thus a football player will get critiqued on what he did well and not so well in that role. He will not get critiqued on things that have nothing to do with that role. So, play to strengths but keep your role in mind and work out the weaknesses.
Good reminder. Get good — at your role — but, within your role, be almost fanatical about getting rid of deficiencies within that role.