Core competence - Individuals in the organisation

We've discussed the strengths/weaknesses theory previously, but how does it work best in an organisation?

One's management of one's strengths and weaknesses is critical in managing one's self and career.

Most people don't quite know what their weaknesses are, let alone their strengths. Identifying them through self-analysis and feedback-analysis is an important starting point. Doing this early in one's life is also advantageous.

The second step is to find the key performance in the core competence. In other words, how do we best exploit our key strengths.

For example, I personally have a strength in computer programming. It is something I've studied and worked on. However, whilst it is one of my strengths it is not my greatest strength. More importantly, it is not an area where I perform the best either. I am far better at doing other things.

A common trap in the competence discussion is ignoring that people have multiple strengths and more importantly not extending the analysis to their a…