Marcus Buckingham and the Gallup Organization have done much to create an awareness of the benefits of learning about  your strengths and how you can create a work environment that allows you to maximize those strengths. We've been talking about this approach for over 30 years in our DiSC training programs. We used to talk about four strategies: Capitalize, Modify, Augment, and Blend. Much of our focus in the past years has been on training people to modify their behavioral style to meet the needs of different situations and different people. Given the pace and demands of life today, constantly modifying our behavioral style may take more energy than we can readily replenish, resulting in stress and burnout. Perhaps our focus should be on helping people implement the  strengths-based strategies of Capitalize, Augment and Blend.