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February
19, 2007:
Behaviors You Cannot Change
Interview
with Chuck Martin, author of Smarts
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Mike
Carruthers:
You
can't be good at everything even though we often try to be.
Chuck Martin:
And a great example is if your weakest executive skill
is time management, you take ten time management courses - it
will still be your weakest skill.
Chuck Martin,
co-author of the book Smarts
Are We Hard Wired for Success, says there are twelve of
these - what he calls executive skills.
Self restraint,
working memory, emotion control, focus, task initiation, planning
and prioritization, organization, time management, defining
and achieving goals, flexibility, observation and stress tolerance
- everyone has two or three that are their strongest, two or
three that are their weakest - they're not dramatically changeable
for life.
The skills in
the middle don't matter much. Chuck says it's the ones you are
weakest in that you have to be most careful;
...because under
pressure your weakest skills always fail first. For example
if your weakest skill is task initiation, you're really under
the gun - you're paralyzed, you can't get started on anything,
nothing gets going. And what happens is once you match someone
to their strengths, their job is pleasant because it's less
effort. If they're matched to their weakness it's what's called
in psychology an effortful task - maybe the person can do it
but they're not happy. And we surveyed 2,000 people about how
well they're matched to the skills and the majority said their
organization does not play to their strengths. Once you know
this about yourself, it's just light bulb time.
At somethingyoushouldknow.net
I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.
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