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Now, Discover Your Strengths
Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton
Rating: 4.0/5 Stars
Rank: 75
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.
About the AuthorMarcus Buckingham, senior vice president of The Gallup Organization,
is coauthor of the bestselling book First, Break All the Rules. A
featured speaker at the Washington Speakers Bureau, he has appeared on
CNN International, CNBC's Power Lunch, and NPR's Morning
Edition, among other programs.
He and his wife, Jane, live in New York
City.
Editorials
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Now, Discover Your Strengths
Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton
![]() | | | Amazon.com's Best of 2001 | | Effectively managing personnel--as well as one's own behavior--is an
extraordinarily complex task that, not surprisingly, has been the subject
of countless books touting what each claims is the true path to success.
That... read full editorial |
![]() | | | From Library Journal | | The premise of this new management study, a follow-up to Buckingham's
First, Break All the Rules (S. & S., 1999), is that the most effective
method for motivating people is to build on their strengths rather than
correcting... read full editorial |
![]() | | | Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. | | Introduction: The Strengths Revolution at
Work Guided by the belief that good is the opposite of bad,
mankind has for centuries pursued its fixation with fault and failing.
Doctors have studied disease in order to learn... read full editorial |
Customer Reviews
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Now, Discover Your Strengths
Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton
![]() | | | Unbelievable | | February 3, 2003 - 5.0/5 stars | | The road is clear to newfound strength in life by these easy guidelines to
your business self. What about the other side though? We all need a
guideline to the other side of ourselves. Dreams: Gateway to the True Self... read full review |
![]() | | | Interesting insights but weak on a unifying theory | | (Chicago, IL United States) June 12, 2003 - 4.0/5 stars | | This book provides some key insights, but is a bit thin in relevant content
- especially for those looking to leverage strengths. Some of the books
solid points:1 - Focusing on strengths is a contratrian idea... read full review |
![]() | | | Truly motivational.... | | (CA, USA) November 29, 2004 - 4.0/5 stars | | I was recommended by a friend to read this book. infact, I borrowed it.
When it comes to discover personal strenghts, I think this book
has really done a wonderful job. And it also touches psychological
aspects. |
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