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Now, Discover Your Strengths Book
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Now, Discover Your Strengths : Hardback : Gallup Press : 9780743201148 : 0743201140 : 02 Mar 2020 : Based on a Gallup study of over two million people who have excelled in their careers, "Now, Discover Your Strengths"" uses a revolutionary program to help readers discover their distinct talents and strengths. The product of a 25 year, multimillion-dollar effort to identify the most prevalent human talents, the StrengthsFinder program introduces 34 talents or ""themes"" and reveals how they can best be translated into personal and career success."
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Amazon Review
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 said, Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton's Now, Discover Your Strengths does indeed propose a unique approach: focusing on enhancing people's strengths rather than eliminating their weaknesses. Following up on the coauthors' popular previous book, First, Break All the Rules, it fully describes 34 positive personality themes the two have formulated (such as Achiever, Developer, Learner, and Maximizer) and explains how to build a "strengths-based organization" by capitalizing on the fact that such traits are already present among those within it.
Most original and potentially most revealing, however, is a Web-based interactive component that allows readers to complete a questionnaire developed by the Gallup Organization and instantly discover their own top-five inborn talents. This device provides a personalized window into the authors' management philosophy which, coupled with subsequent advice, places their suggestions into the kind of practical context that's missing from most similar tomes. "You can't lead a strengths revolution if you don't know how to find, name and develop your own," write Buckingham and Clifton. Their book encourages such introspection while providing knowledgeable guidance for applying its lessons. --Howard Rothman
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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 tryingto repair these flaws, while our strengths lie dormant and neglected. Marcus Buckingham, coauthor of the national bestseller First Brea/e All the Rules, and Donald O. Clifton, Chair of the Gallup Intemauonal 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 elliott 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 Strengths Finder Profile on the Internet. This Web-based interview analyzes your instinctive reactions andimmediately presents you with your Hve 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, this is a groundbreaking and useful business book.
- 0743201140
- 9780743201148
- Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton
- 17 April 2001
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Hardcover (Book)
- 260
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