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Sales Rank: 221
Category: Book
Authors: Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton
Publisher: Free Press
Studio: Free Press
Manufacturer: Free Press
Label: Free Press
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0743201140
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.409
EAN: 9780743201148
ASIN: 0743201140
Publication Date: January 29, 2001
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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 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 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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Very insightful June 30, 2009
It is amazing. I wanted to let others know where to find the access code in the audio book version (CD). I spent a lot of time looking... It's printed on the plastic under CD #1.
 DO NOT, DO NOT, DO NOT, BUY THIS USED June 20, 2009
The book is fine. It's got a lot of easily assimilated rhetoric that you've likely heard in 15 other formats, but hey, a little more supporting banter never hurt, right?
Here's the thing... In order to use the book past chapter 2, you must have taken the assessment test that you can ONLY access with the unique code in the book, and can ONLY access it twice. The book SUGGESTS that you take the test twice to get an accurate reading.
Why is this a problem? The publisher REFUSES to allow any further testing beyond the 2 that you get in the book. Period. If you buy the book used, and it was previously owned by anyone that had any interest in the book, then they will have used the code, voiding any benefit that you may get from the book in the first place.
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 A worthwhile exercise May 28, 2009
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.
 book returned May 9, 2009
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.
Discover your talent and strengths April 29, 2009
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.
The book explains further the different between talent, knowledge and skills. It also explores how we could identify our talent.
The most important reason to own this book is to use the online strength test provided in the book which could help you identify your talents.
The last part of this book examines how we should manage our talents and develop them into strength. It also explains how organization should utilize the potential of their employees and build the company into a strength-based organization.
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