Peter Drucker

All you can do in your company—and you’d better do it—is find out the strengths of the people who work for you and place them where their strengths can produce results, so that there is satisfaction. At present, we are focused on the weaknesses of people. When I talk to my clients about Joe, they say Joe cannot do this and Joe cannot do that. Then I get annoyed and say, if Joe cannot do anything, why is he still your employee? If you want to build a relationship with Joe, find out what Joe’s good at and make sure he gets to do that kind of work. That way you build the desire for achievement, the respect for management. And that’s what people want to have. We just make it awfully hard for them.

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