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| | Leaders aren't born, they're developed. Continue your development with the leadership books and resources found at the LeaderShop!
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 | | October 10, 2008
Push Yourself Within Your Comfort Zone
Push yourself beyond your comfort zone. This sounds right because, of course, you should keep learning and growing and experimenting through your career. But it’s not true. It leads people such as Michael Jordan to try their hand at professional baseball.
Instead, you should push yourself within your comfort zone.
Your strengths are your comfort zone. Your strengths are not only activities that strengthen you, but they are also activities where you have the greatest capacity to learn and grow. So if you are going to push yourself—and you should—then push yourself to get better and better at expressing your strengths.
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| | Creativity Gap in U.S. Workplace
A recent survey found that 88% of Americans consider themselves to be creative. But when it comes to creativity in the workplace, just 63% said their positions were creative, and 61% thought similarly of their employers.
A total of 75% of respondents thought that their employers valued their creativity, and 20% said they would change jobs—even if it meant earning less money—to be more creative at work. 29% of those surveyed indicated that they would change where they live if it meant being part of a more creative community. This was especially true of workers between the ages of 18 and 34. This “creativity gap” — the disparity between the creative resources available and those being employed—can be an important indicator, experts say, in determining how well American companies are preparing for a future U.S. economy that will rely on creativity and innovation more than ever.
SOURCE: Fairfax County Economic Development Authority (fairfaxcountyeda.org)
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