APPENDIX BHistory of the Strengths Movement
Focusing on strengths seems like a recent phenomenon triggered by popular books such as Flow, by Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, and Soar with Your Strengths, by Dr. Don Clifton of Gallup. For the past 20 years, there has been an increasing momentum around this topic. However, the first person on record to take a strong stance regarding the topic of a strengths focus occurred nearly 50 years ago. It was the legendary Peter Drucker, who originally wrote:
The effective executive makes strength productive. He knows that one cannot build on weakness. To achieve results, one has to use all the available strengths—the strengths of associates, the strengths of the superior, and one’s own strengths. These strengths ...
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