#strength The effective executive makes strength productive. One cannot build on weakness to achieve results; one has to use all the available strengths. Only strength produces results. > The task of an executive is not to **change human beings** but rather, as the Bible tells us in the parable of the talents, to multiply the performance capacity of the whole by putting to use whatever strength, whatever health, whatever aspiration there is in individuals. [[Organization is designed to exploit human strengths while making weaknesses irrelevant]] In every area of effectiveness within the organization, one feeds the opportunities and starves the problems. The effective executive looks upon people, including himself, as an opportunity. ## 1. The strength of others -- staffing for strengths to focus on strength is to make demands for performance [[To get strength one has to put up with weaknesses]] [[A job should fit the strength of a person]] [[A job should be demanding and big in order to make strengths productive]] ## 2. The strength of myself -- my own temperament [[Effective executives make their strength productive by doing whatever they are able to do and are worthwhile doing]] [[Making my strength productive requires respecting my own abilities and work habits]]