Now, Discover Your Strengths

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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.

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Editorials

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	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
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	Mike Morrison Dean, University of Toyota The code for managing has been broken and the secrets for success are here in this book! We know this from first-hand experience -- with over 2,000 Gallup 'strengths'... 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

	An amazing insight into finding our talents
	(blogs.bootsnall.com/steve/) March 10, 2005 - 5.0/5 stars
	I was recommended this book but did not pick it up after buying it for some time. Once I did pick it up I had trouble putting it down. The focus on this book is how to discover your strengths using a Gallup online... read full review
	The VERY FIRST BOOK is the best!
	(Dallas) March 13, 2001 - 3.0/5 stars
	In reading some of the reviews about this book people seem to go back to one reoccuring theme which embraces the initial concept of relying on your strengths for success. That premise is the cornerstone of the book,... read full review
	Repetitively obnoxious
	(Jersey City, NJ United States) September 30, 2003 - 2.0/5 stars
	Self-help or not, as I read this book I felt that I was being "talked down to". The author probably would make an excellent kindergarten teacher, because only there is teaching by repetition considered an option... read full review

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