Manage Your Employees’ Strengths - A Lesson From Tennis
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I went to school in the days when all little girls wore dresses. For gym class, we slipped on some shorts and changed our shoes to the PF Flyers we kept in a cubby-hole. Then it was off to the gym for some dreaded activity: Dodge ball, chin-ups, or that awful rope I could never quite climb. “Is this all there is to sports?” I wondered. Finally, during a dodge ball game in 4th grade, I figured out that the sooner I got hit, the sooner I could get out of that war zone called a game. By the end of grammar school, I thought I was just not an athlete. Junior high wasn’t much better. Besides the ugly gymsuits we had to wear, I was introduced to gymnastics and volleyball. Again, those sports were not for me. It was at about the same time that my father introduced my brother and me to golf and tennis. We played golf on a little 3-par course. A nine hole game was about all I could handle at the time (never mind that I played with my father’s former set of clubs from the late 1940’s). With only …
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