Day Quote by Sheryl Sandberg
“At Facebook, we try to be a strengths-based organization, which means we try to make jobs fit around people rather than make people fit around jobs. We focus on what people's natural strengths are and spend our management time trying to find ways for them to use those strengths every day.”
About This Quote
Source Speech: Leadership at Facebook, 2014
Align jobs with employees’ natural strengths to boost satisfaction and performance.
In simple terms: Fit work to people, not people to work.
Key Takeaway
Match roles to strengths.
Themes
human resources
strengths based management
workplace culture
Mood
encouraging
practical
Type
leadership
HR
When to use this quote
- career counseling
- team building
- performance reviews
Key Concepts
psychology
organizational design
employee engagement
Questions to Reflect On
- How can you discover your strengths?
- What changes would improve role fit?
A Different Perspective
People may lack self‑awareness of their strengths.
![“I have to use my strengths, which [are] my speed, my quickness and my movements. If I do that, I really believe that I will come out on top.” quote by Manny Pacquiao](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/0de/manny-pacquiao-3255_believe_i-have-to-use-my-strengths-which-are-my_233366.jpg)
![“[Eric Schmidt] explained that only one criterion that mattered when picking a job- fat growth. When companies grow quickly, there are more things to do than there are people to do them. When companies grow more slowly or stop growing, there is less to do and too many people to not be doing them…” quote by Sheryl Sandberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/23b/sheryl-sandberg-439_feminism_eric-schmidt-explained-that-only-one-cri_16526.jpg)
