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Now, Discover Your Strengths
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Sales rank 337
Customers rating (based on 374 reviews)
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Unfortunately, most of us have little sense of our talents and strengths, much less the ability to build our lives around them. Instead, guided by our parents, by our teachers, by our managers, and by psychology's fascination with pathology, we become experts in our weaknesses and spend our lives trying to repair these flaws, while our strengths lie dormant and neglected. Marcus Buckingham, coauthor of the national bestseller First, Break All the Rules, and Donald O. Clifton, Chair of the Gallup International Research & Education Center, have created a revolutionary program to help readers identify their talents, build them into strengths, and enjoy consistent, near-perfect performance. At the heart of the book is the Internet-based StrengthsFinder® Profile, the product of a 25-year, multimillion-dollar effort to identify the most prevalent human strengths. The program introduces 34 dominant "themes" with thousands of possible combinations, and reveals how they can best be translated into personal and career success. In developing this program, Gallup has conducted psychological profiles with more than two million individuals to help readers learn how to focus and perfect these themes. So how does it work? This book contains a unique identification number that allows you access to the StrengthsFinder Profile on the Internet. This Web-based interview analyzes your instinctive reactions and immediately presents you with your five most powerful signature themes. Once you know which of the 34 themes -- such as Achiever, Activator, Empathy, Futuristic, or Strategic -- you lead with, the book will show you how to leverage them for powerful results at three levels: for your own development, for your success as a manager, and for the success of your organization. With accessible and profound insights on how to turn talents into strengths, and with the immediate on-line feedback of StrengthsFinder at its core, Now, Discover Your Strengths is one of the most groundbreaking and useful business books ever written. Please note that the code for the Online Strengths Finder Test is found on the inside of the dust jacket.
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| Publisher | Free Press | | Release date | 01/2001 | | Availability | Usually ships in 24 hours | | Edition | Hardcover |
| | List price | $30 | | Our price | $17.55 (you save 41.50%) | | Used price | from $0.01 |
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Discovering your strengths: Drawing on a study of over 2m people, a new book explains that the key to success is not managing your weaknesses but knowing your strengths (@ The Economist)
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 Awesome resource
I ordered this book for an educational management class. I was so concerned that the code in the back cover would be valid because my professor said that it was so important. I got the book. The code was intact and this book has proven to be a valuable tool. Not only do I use it for class assignments, but I find myself referring to it for areas outside of class. The strength finder assessment's revelation of my strengths was so accurate that it was almost scary. Great book!!!!
 Don't buy this book used
Unfortunately without the access code in a new book you cannot take the online quiz needed to identify your strengths so buying a used book does not save you money . On the contrary it renders the book nearly worthless.
Great Book Go Buy It, Read and Apply The Information
First off, if your a manager you should probably read First Break All The Rules.
Any book written by Marcus Buckingham is well worth your time.
Now Discover Your Strengths seems like it applies more towards personal development rather
than managing people, which is why I bought it. However you can use the information to become a better manager.
Can't really say there is anything I didn't like about this book. It provides tons of insight into YOU and answers
almost every single question that pops into your head.
The only question I had that they didn't answer is this. After taking the Strengths Finder 2.0 Test you get back
your 5 main themes. My question is this. How close were your next 5 themes that didn't make it into your top 5...?
This is one of those books that after you read it your going to re-read it and constantly go back to it again and again.
I would recommend for Entrepreneurs and other people serious about finding out their strengths and weaknesses also
take the Kolbe A Index assessment. It will provide more insight in helping you identify your strengths and weaknesseses.
I took the Kolbe through Strategic Profits. Why..? After you take the Kolbe A Index your left with, so what do I do with this now.
Rich provides an hour video and 30 page ebook to help with this. Kolbe also has some great audios to listen to as well.
At last, a book that makes sense!
How many of us, well into our careers, still live with the mistaken idea that the purpose of most of our activities is to work on those weaknesses and somehow turn them into strengths? I would venture to say, the majority of us, certainly those of us who grew up with post war parents who themselves believed that success in working life and achievement can be measured by the extent to which his has been accomplished.
In the meantime, strengths, natural aptitudes, and in most cases the activities that enhance our well being are almost ignored, simply because so much energy goes into working on those weaknesses.
When put this simply, none of us should be surprised at the level of unhappiness sustained by a lot of people in their jobs.
So, in the face of this general discontent, Marcus Buckingham comes along to shake us up and wake us up. With the help of his, dare I say it, easy to understand theory, we can turn our professional and personal lives around.
What you need to do, is rediscover the strengths that are an integral part of your own personality, and by strengths he means, not only the things you excel at but that also give a sense of satisfaction and contentment. Then to increase well being it is essential to take these discoveries seriously and ensure they can be put to use to either help you choose a new career path or to improve your situation in your current job.
Bosses, he says, must be aware of the natural strengths of employees and work on finding ways of utilising these instead of regularly planning training programmes to help them identify weaknesses that subsequently should be worked on to transform them into strengths because that just isn't about to happen. It takes much more energy and investment to work on weaknesses than it does to enhance strengths.
Simple, yet it took Marcus Buckingham to point it out. A definite eye opener. I recommend it to bosses and employees alike.
Incredibly insightful tool for understanding talent
Part of the "strengths movement", this book has helped to validate and clarify things I've known about myself and provided me with new insights as well. I'm a huge fan of the Clifton Strengthsfinder tool and found the book to be a very enjoyable read. I read this with my previous work team and we found the discussions to be very meaningful, enjoyable, and helpful- especially as we went through the performance review process and when I landed in a new job. I'd heard a lot about the book and am very glad that I got to read it. I highly recommend it!
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