Playing to our.......

Conventional wisdom has it that we play to our strengths.

I wonder how limiting that might be. When we play to our strengths, it is natural to choose competitors who are weaker than us, because as a society we have a bias for winning.

However, we don't get better by playing people who don't stretch us. Failure is a necessary part of growth.

Over the last couple of years I have become interested in the power of archetypes; specifically the work being pioneered by Olivier Mythodrama

Much of the business work done around Jungian Archetypes takes the form of analysis and categorisation - Belbin, Myers Briggs etc - and are valuable when looking at how we operate as individuals and as a team. However, I have increasingly found that those who have done them tend to label themselves, and play to those strengths.

Which would be fine, if things weren't changing as quickly as they are.

We are all much more than we appear. In addition to our expressed strengths, we have ones waiting in the wings. Which…