What to do here on this Blog...

What to do here on this blog...


Modeled on the explanations of StrengthsFinder® assets available in Now, Discover Your Strengths, the following pages contain explanations of what we believe are perhaps the most common workplace Shadow Strengths®. Please feel free to explore and tap into your natural talents in cynicism, negativity and sarcasm to further develop this new approach to management – the emergent field of “research” in Shadow Strengths®.


Ross Peterson-Veatch, Ph.D and Eric Metzler, Ph.D.

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

DESTROYER

Everything in life has a downside, and it’s your job to point that out to others. You wouldn’t want them to fail, when you could be so very helpful to them in clarifying their fuzzy thinking. If it weren’t for you, people would blithely try reasonable new innovations without fully scrutinizing every last gnat’s ass problem that MIGHT happen upon implementation.

Destroyer sounds like this:

John M., mid-level administrator: “People can’t just try out any old idea that comes to mind. After all, we don’t want people to think we’ve lowered our standards around here.”

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