On Leadership and the Danger of Overplaying Your Strengths

If the leader wishes to discover his blind spot, he must first ask a revealing question: What is it about my greatest strength that naturally blinds me to its necessary weaknesses? Some of our greatest weaknesses are impossibly entangled with our greatest strengths. Beware, because your strength will dominate you. It will dominate your time, it will dominate your method, and it will constantly reinforce itself. The leader must monopolize his strength, while at the same time, maintaining acute awareness of its inherent weakness.