Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.

Talent is the multiplier. The more energy and attention you invest in it, the greater the yield. The time you spend with your best is, quite simply, your most productive time.

The first step is to recognize what you need to know and why you need to know it.

You shouldn't take pride in your natural talents any more than you should take pride in your sex, your race or color of your hair

Obviously, you have to know what you need now and what you will soon need, then hire or promote from within to meet those needs.

Gen Y is really quite distinct from Gen X; it's really self-involved and very narcissistic - their cameras are filled with pictures of themselves; Facebook, it's about me. It's a generation that's been pampered by their parents and their schools, given prizes for just taking part.

Discover what you don't like doing and stop doing it.