Convey your passion and link your strengths to measurable results. Employers and interviewers love concrete data.

Strengths are not activities you're good at, they're activities that strengthen you. A strength is an activity that before you're doing it you look forward to doing it; while you're doing it, time goes by quickly and you can concentrate; after you've done it, it seems to fulfill a need of yours.

We all want the chance to express the very best of ourselves and to be challenged to keep reaching for more. Our time at work affords us this chance - not the only chance, to be sure, but, given that we're there forty or fifty hours a week, it's one of the best.

The opposite of a leader isn't a follower. The opposite of a leader is a pessimist.

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

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

If the manager really is the problem, try to get reassigned elsewhere in the organization or start looking for one in which you can play to your strengths.