In our workplaces and in our lives, we all boast strengths—traits that can equip us well for working with and leading others. But to Steve Mortenson, associate professor of communication, those strengths can be accompanied—and sometimes distorted—by their own shadows. Ambitious go-getters, for example, can also be prone to becoming work-a-holics, exposing a darker side to an otherwise laudable trait. So relish your strengths—but beware of their shadows.