We live with them every day, and they come so easily to us that they cease to be precious.

The corporate world is appallingly bad at capitalizing on the strengths of its people.

Most of my work has been in corporations, studying how you build an organization that helps people to identify and work to their strengths.

Great managers know they don't have 10 salespeople working for them. They know they have 10 individuals working for them . A great manager is brilliant at spotting the unique differences that separate each person and then capitalizing on them.

The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how to trip each person's trigger.

Teach your children how to identify their own strengths and challenge them to contribute these strengths to others.

American culture is CEO obsessed. We celebrate the hard-charging heroes and mythologize the iconoclastic visionaries. Those people are important.