Chapter 1. Taking Inventory with the Executive Skills Profile

THE FIRST STEP in determining your combinations of strengths and weaknesses is to measure each of your 12 Executive Skills. Everyone has strengths and everyone has weaknesses in their skills. It would be extremely unusual for a person to be strong in all twelve skills, since some are effectively opposites. There are some common combinations of strengths and weaknesses, so that people who are strong in specific skills are often weak in certain others, and the patterns are predictable.

Determining your strongest and weakest skill requires that you understand each of the skills and the characteristics associated with them. Several of the Executive Skills in which you excel or fail will ...

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