PeopleComm - your money or your life!?

Regardless of what you do, whether you are a driver, an accountant, teacher, call center operator, clerk or a manager... how good are you at your field? World class? National or local level? Are you one of the 2 out of 10 who spend most of their lives with what they are best at? How can you find out?

Is finding and correcting your weaknesses the best way to achieving outstanding performance? 87% of respondents strongly agree or agree. (Source:  http://www.marcusbuckingham.com/index.php).

I will be only repeating myself saying that countless research studies reveal that 8 out of 10 people do not do what they are best at. Ever since I came across this statistic for the first time (some five years ago) I can not get it out of my head. To me it is an unbelievable waste of talent and other resources.

Something is not right with the workplace today.
Numerous research studies point out that roughly two of ten working people enjoy their jobs for the most part.

Have you ever studied something just for the degree?
And have you ever changed jobs even if you liked the one you had at the time? Just for the sake of moving up?

A farmer put once an eagle's egg in a barnyard nest. The eagle hatched and grew up thinking he was a chicken. He scratched for worms, clucked, and only flew a few feet into the air.

Dakota tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead
horse, the best strategy is to dismount. However, both at work and at home we often
try other strategies with dead horses, including the following:

“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.
It knows that it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up.
It knows that it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve.
It does not matter whether you are a lion or gazelle.
When the sun comes up you had better be running.”

Except for very few examples of matriarchy around the world, human societies have always been dominated by men. Much has happened in the last fifty years for female emancipation (mainly in Western Europe, North America and Asia).