Perhaps the biggest fad to sweep through management in the last decade was the strengths movement. Its message was that you should build on natural talent to maximize strengths rather than try to improve weaknesses. It was the brainchild of Donald Clifton, the late grandfather of Positive Psychology, but is associated in the popular culture with Marcus Buckingham, Clifton's coauthor of Now, Discover Your Strengths (2001).
Like any successful movement, the strengths movement drove a single issue and inevitably left out a lot. Although several important things got overlooked, we want to call attention to a very real danger: Strengths can become weaknesses when overused.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Don't Let Your Strengths Become Your Weaknesses - Robert B. Kaiser and Robert E. Kaplan - Harvard Business Review
