"When the going gets tough, the tough get going." Fine and well, but how about: when the going gets tough, the tough go strengthen?

As managers, when a lousy economy forces us to evaluate what works and what doesn't work, it's also a time to tweak. renovate, amplify, If something works well, how do you amplify, re-deploy, re-iterate it?

What doesn't work may conceal strengths too. For example, just to be able to cast an unsparing eye at everything is a strength. By the same token, it could work out that somebody sees a new strength concealed in an old weakness.

The main thing is to know your strengths and then figure out how to better support, integrate and sustain each of them.

Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used. -Richard E. Byrd

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Have great days,

Leslie