{"id":15195,"date":"2019-05-31T13:55:48","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T17:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merig.com\/?p=13531"},"modified":"2019-10-09T14:51:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T18:51:49","slug":"the-goldilocks-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/gds\/2019\/05\/31\/the-goldilocks-question\/","title":{"rendered":"The Goldilocks Question"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Success doesn’t come from playing to your strengths.\u00a0 It comes from playing your strengths in\u00a0the<\/span>\u00a0right situations.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This article<\/a>\u00a0references a study where co-workers rated their managers in four leadership areas:\u00a0 taking charge, empowering others, creating a vision and executing.\u00a0 They used\u00a0the<\/span>\u00a0Goldilocks question:\u00a0 did the managers\u00a0do too little, too much, or\u00a0the<\/span>\u00a0right amount of each behavior.\u00a0 More than half were overdoing at least one behavior.\u00a0 Guess which one?\u00a0 Their strength.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ambitious managers?\u00a0 Overdid decisiveness and underdid empowerment. Sensitive managers?\u00a0\u00a0The<\/span>\u00a0reverse: they were too encouraging and not assertive enough. Inquisitive managers overemphasized innovation and underemphasized\u00a0results. And conscientious managers also did\u00a0the<\/span>\u00a0reverse: they were so busy trimming the weeds\u00a0that they paid too little attention to\u00a0the<\/span>\u00a0big picture. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOften our greatest weaknesses are\u00a0the<\/span>\u00a0other side of our strengths…if you\u2019re a spellbinding storyteller, you need to ask whether a dinner party is\u00a0an<\/span>\u00a0ideal time to perform!”\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

More areas to practice self-awareness and self-management.\u00a0 Day by day, we are humbled by all the opportunities\u00a0to learn, grow and improve.<\/span><\/p>\n

Leslie Phillips
\nCEO<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Success doesn’t come from playing to your strengths.\u00a0 It comes from playing your strengths in\u00a0the\u00a0right situations.”\u00a0\u00a0 This article\u00a0references a study where co-workers rated their managers in four leadership areas:\u00a0 taking charge, empowering others, creating a vision and executing.\u00a0 They used\u00a0the\u00a0Goldilocks question:\u00a0 did the managers\u00a0do too little, too much, or\u00a0the\u00a0right amount of each behavior.\u00a0 More than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/gds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/gds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/gds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/gds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/gds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/gds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15242,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/gds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15195\/revisions\/15242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/gds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/gds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/gds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mgdining.com\/gds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}