Drawing on more than fifteen years of counseling and business experience, Dr. Frankel has identified the eight most common reasons that careers stall, plateau, get sidetracked, or worse, derail. Surprisingly, the very strengths that can make employees, managers, and executives successful can also lead to their undoing.With self-tests and dozens of examples from the workplace and her own practice, Dr. Frankel helps readers identify their dominant skills and professional behaviors and use them in innovative ways and develop the eight crucial characteristics and habits for managing people and problems optimally. Full of in-depth case studies that show positive results from real client's applications of Dr. Frankel's solutions to their own career problems, Overcoming Your Strengths offers solid, effective, short- and long-term strategies for adapting to changing business trends, competitive challenges, and the shrinking job market. Read Less