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Now, Discover Your Strengths
Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton
Rating: 4.0/5 Stars
Rank: 74
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
![]() | | | From AudioFile | | The authors of First, Break All the Rules explain how value can be added to
your life's work if you know your strengths and develop them in the right
business context. They conducted a study that identified... read full editorial |
![]() | | | Review | | Dr. Frank Schmidt Ralph L. Sheets Professor of Human Resources, Department
of Management and Organization, College of Business, University of Iowa
This book is built around a unique vision of the high-performing
individual... read full editorial |
![]() | | | Book Info | | Introduces a system for discovering personal strengths and talents, and
being able to use them to create personal and professional success. Also
shows how to help others realize their potential, using the
StrengthsFinder... read full editorial |
Customer Reviews
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Now, Discover Your Strengths
Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton
![]() | | | Let Well-Established, Good Habits Take You Forward! | | (a happy Red Sox and Patriots fan in Boston) January 1, 2001 - 5.0/5 stars | | This book represents three very ambitious efforts. One, it argues for a
new management paradigm that builds from the psychological make-up of each
person in the workplace to create the most effective combination... read full review |
![]() | | | Gallup: Discover Your Customer Dissatisfaction | | (Tokyo, Japan) May 12, 2003 - 2.0/5 stars | | Four stars for content, and zero for product "features". The book applies
an old strategy wisdom to the domain of self- and people management: focus
on your strengths, and ignore your weaknesses unless they seriously... read full review |
![]() | | | remedial | | (New York) January 2, 2003 - 2.0/5 stars | | this is a fine book for those who've never done a self analysis course or
personality test. unfortunately, that's all this really is and the
multiple references to sales and the word "empathy" make it
clear that... read full review |
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