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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.409
EAN: 9780743201148
ISBN: 0743201140
Label: Free Press
Manufacturer: Free Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: January 29, 2001
Publisher: Free Press
Sales Rank: 226
Studio: Free Press
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Product Description:
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.
Amazon.com Review:
Effectively managing personnel--as well as one's own behavior--is anextraordinarily complex task that, not surprisingly, has been the subjectof countless books touting what each claims is the true path to success.That said, Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton's Now, Discover YourStrengths does indeed propose a unique approach: focusing on enhancingpeople's strengths rather than eliminating their weaknesses. Following upon the coauthors' popular previous book, First, Break All theRules, it fully describes 34 positive personality themes the twohave formulated (such as Achiever, Developer, Learner, and Maximizer) andexplains how to build a 'strengths-based organization' by capitalizing onthe fact that such traits are already present among those within it.
Most original and potentially most revealing, however, is a Web-basedinteractive component that allows readers to complete a questionnairedeveloped by the Gallup Organization and instantly discover their own top-five inborn talents. This device provides a personalized window into theauthors' management philosophy which, coupled with subsequent advice,places their suggestions into the kind of practical context that's missingfrom most similar tomes. 'You can't lead a strengths revolution if youdon't know how to find, name and develop your own,' write Buckingham andClifton. Their book encourages such introspection while providingknowledgeable guidance for applying its lessons. --Howard Rothman
Customer Reviews Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Management tool
Probably the best management and personnel development tool around! Four staff members were each given a copy to read and to follow the instructions for getting an analysis. Each was asked tobring the analysis for their annual job review. They expected the typical "this is good andthat is bad" comments but found that when they reviewed their positive traits they were asked "how can you apply that in your job?" Ar real morale and performance builder.
Rating:  - Maybe the book would be good if you could access the strength finder web site
I think the subject of the book is good, however a big part of dicovering your strengths is taking the on line strength finder quiz.Unfortunatley for me the code provided on the inside of the jacket is either invalid or has been used by someone already.
So as I read this book I will be left to wonder "what are my strengths..."
Rating: - A Look in the Mirror
[As a corporate human resources director, I often work on developing the latent talents and skills of various managers.Years ago, I taught a class where I had each participant to look into a hand-held mirror and ask the question, "Would you want to work for this person?"
This book takes this exercise to a completely different level.To discover your own inner strengths (and weakness) ensures that you will become the very best manager possible. As a fan of First, Break All the Rules, ... Read More
Rating: - Pass on this book NOW
Nice concept that could have been handled with a 10 page paper.Clearly authors had to have some volume to prove value so they drone on and on and on.Very tedious reading.Then at every turn they continue to try to sell other products or services.The major killer is having an online exam to evalute your strengths; however, the code is only good once - so DON'T buy a used book as your code will be invalid.If the exam is a work related exercise, you'll be forced to buy a new book just for the code. ... Read More
Rating: - The good and the bad
The book is very interesting and very effective. The internet test is very accurate. Nevertheless each strength profile should be discussed more in depth. Let's say you get an idea of who you are but you would like to get more of it. Anyway, the price is worth the stuff you find in the book!
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