Finding Your Great Gift
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by David Logan

I was associate dean of the USC Marshall School of Business, and on the first day of the job I knew I had made a terrible mistake. I realized that my new job took me away from what I did well — teaching, writing, research, and consulting — and made me a manager instead.

Almost immediately, my body told me of the error. At night, the noise of my teeth grinding would wake me up, the vibration still rattling my skull. I had a constant stomachache. Although I exercised daily, I could feel the tension growing.

One of the big advances in leadership research over the last two decades offers a critical clue into the nature of my mistake: I was fitting myself into a job instead of looking to my natural gifts and finding a job that used them. Peter Drucker, the father of modern management theory, was one of many to sound off on the problem. If a person is average at something — as I was with accounting — he can spend his life in development and never get past “slightly above average.” The same person can focus on a natural area of giftedness, spend the same development time, and become world class.

I ended up leaving that job about four years into it, and everyone is the better for the change. The question is: How do you do what I didn’t and find your areas of strength?

Let’s take the next step in this blog post — how to find your “great gift” that is so strong and unique to you that it borders on being a superpower.

Think about it. What makes Batman, Batman? Wealth, fighting skills, and friends who can develop high-tech suits, cars, and other gear to aid his crime-fighting. His great gift — the one that propels him and allows him to do what appears impossible — is a belief: that he can become Batman, and that the world needs Batman. This belief is his great gift.

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Are You Using Your Gift At Work?
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