Schools, on the other hand, strive to make students feel guilty about their weaknesses.
As leaders, we serve our employees best by not focusing attention on their weaknesses and mistakes.
It called for schools to address their weaknesses and to seek outside help if needed.
That will depend partly on whether they can use their strengths and overcome their weaknesses.
For example, will the results differ if employees reflect on their weaknesses as well as their strengths?
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We focus on what people are doing wrong, on their weaknesses and shortcomings.
We'll look at some game tape and we'll try to identify their weaknesses.
The middle class seem to be overly committed to shoring up their weaknesses in order to be well-rounded in their work.
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These revealing differences in working styles can allow managers to assemble more effective teams by playing on people's strengths and trying to ameliorate their weaknesses.
And they found that the firms that had not outsourced their patent filing activities were much better at identifying potential technology competitors (and their weaknesses) early on.
The key: focusing on their strengths instead of their weaknesses.
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Their weaknesses are acute--Bush's constitutional authority is under attack by Congress, Abe faces key legislative elections in late July--and they also have chronic implications for international trade and finance.
"It enables our clients to put into practice some of the skills they've been learning -- how to manage different team members' strengths, and manage around their weaknesses, " said Tilley.
Plus it's tough for researchers to even gain access to FIX-based systems to study their weaknesses since you can't just take down a financial trading app to test it, for instance.
Abraham Lincoln, he shows, was a shrewd, almost devious manager of human talent who was able to deploy his generals in ways that played to their strengths and neutralised their weaknesses.
They've achieved a scale that truly magnifies their weaknesses.
Yet boyish enthusiasm and populism also have their weaknesses.
Any business is going to be constantly brainstorming their weaknesses and threats, and anyone in the smartphone business will be well aware of the strength of Google (through Android) in the ecosystem.
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When Mr Mubarak met a group of intellectuals this week, he listened to their passionate talk about the need to confront the West but replied that Egyptians had to recognise their weaknesses and put national interests first.
As I wrote last week, not only did its competitors fail to offer a credible alternative, they highlighted their own weaknesses in their respective preemptive launches.
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States that want to gain an edge must identify their competitive weaknesses and correct them.
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And what's with their greatest weaknesses being most kinds of Italian food, Sunday school, and the sun, which helps flowers grow?
He casts a wise, rather than a cold, eye on his characters' struggles, both with an inflexible social system and their own weaknesses.
They need to be confident and comfortable in self-analysis that they can identify their own weaknesses so they can assemble a team or partners that complement them.
The earlier they define their strengths and weaknesses, the sooner they can begin to leverage their attributes and shore up their shortcomings.
Most guests emerge from the Tucson, AZ, destination spa with increased awareness of their strengths and weaknesses--or, at least, of their fears--with many pledging to return to chart their progress.
Their first experiment with this is The Eatery, an iPhone app that helps users track and analyze their eating patterns to better understand their strengths, weaknesses and the best places to make changes in their diet.
During difficult market conditions clients can learn the most about their managers because weaknesses are exposed.
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And they insist that they want to talk about what they stand for, not their opponents' weaknesses.
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