A Valentine’s Day Poem for Managers

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1. jd says:

   February 14, 2008 at 11:05 pm

   Nicely put!

   I used to focus on playing to strengths. While that’s helpful, the most important ingredient is passion.

   Passion is the staying power. The problem of strictly focusing on strengths means that you can easily be doing a lot of what you’re good at, but don’t enjoy — or worse, fall into a rut.

   The best case scenario is when your passion, strength, and value to the business overlap.

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2. David Zinger says:

   February 15, 2008 at 4:53 am

   jd,
   I think it is very powerful when we weave together our passions, strengths, and contribution. Good point about overlap.
   David

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3. Tanmay Vora says:

   February 18, 2008 at 3:15 am

   Hi David, Loved that one. I have always believed that doing what we like is freedom and liking what we do is happiness. On the same lines, I read a simple yet profound quote by Khalil Gibran somewhere which states “Work is love made visible”.

   For a manager, another important aspect to this is to be able to find individual strengths and inclinations of team members and play to their strengths by giving them tasks that they are really good at.

   Thanks for that wonderful poem.

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4. David Zinger says:

   February 18, 2008 at 5:43 am

   Thanks for the poem feedback Tanmay, I do like Gibran’s work is love made visible.

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