Now, Discover Your Strengths

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.

Please note that the code for the Online Strengths Finder Test is found on the inside of the dust jacket.

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

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Customer Reviews

Rating: - A worthwhile exercise
This is a low cost alternative to spending 2K plus on a 3 day Gallup course. I have used it at several companies with great success. At the very least, it is great for team building.

I have bought copies for both my son's to help them focus on what to do when they leave college.
Rating: - book returned
My card was credited with the amount of the book since it couldn't be used to access the website to "discover my strengths". The code had already been used by previous owner.
Rating: - Discover your talent and strengths
The problem with our society and our working environment is that we focus too much on correcting our weakness instead of focusing on the strength. This is partly due to our education system and our upbringing. We have trained ourselves to get well-rounded and become mediocre.

This book convinced us that we should focus our energy and efforts on developing our strength. However, we shouldn't ignore our weaknesses; we should work on our weaknesses so that it could not undermine our strength. ... Read More
Rating: - The first step towards greatness
Ask anyone including your self, What your top natural talents are and what do they do for you in your current roll? Very few will answer something specific; most of us cannot say in what thins we can bring consistent, near perfect performance that can be productively applied.

This book is the first of its kind, it can reveal for you your top 5 talents and put them into perspective for you. This exercise was helpfull to me in order to arrange my priorities in learning, my job and life in general. ... Read More
Rating: - Very Good
This book came within no time, great service and the book is in great shape. I recommend you buy from this seller.