Books : Now, Discover Your Strengths
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by: Donald O. Clifton
List Price: $25.00Amazon.com's Price: $16.50 You Save: $8.50 (34%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: Audio CD
Dewey Decimal Number: 650.14
EAN: 9780743518147
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
ISBN: 0743518144
Label: Simon & Schuster Audio
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster Audio
Number Of Items: 3
Number Of Pages: 3
Publication Date: January 01, 2001
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
Sales Rank: 28534
Studio: Simon & Schuster Audio
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Product Description:
Most of us fail to build our lives around individual strengths and talents -- instead, misguided by parents, teachers, managers, and psychology's fascination with pathology, we focus on our weaknesses while our abilities remain in the background. Now this fascinating new audio will help anyone shed new light on what they have to offer the world, by using the StrengthFinder Profile -- Gallup's twenty-five year, multimillion dollar effort to identify the 34 most prevalent human talents through more than 2 million individual psychological profiles. Now, Discover Your Strengths boldly reveals which of the 34 themes represent the listener's most dominant strengths, and subsequently challenges workers, managers, and executives at every level to improve their lives.
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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Rating:  - Find your strengths and put them to work for you!
In an ocean full of bigger fish it can be difficult to stop living on the offense and consider our own strengths. How will you stand out amongst the other 200 people at that job interview if you yourself have no idea what your strengths are? And if you don't know what you are good at, are you applying for the best job for yourself in the first place?
`Now Discover Your Strengths' is the follow up to Buckingham's previous book `Break all the Rules'. This book focused on identifying and ... Read More
Rating: - How do you want to spend the rest of your life?
This a good book if you want to rethink what you are doing with your life. Stephen Covey integrates some of this kind of thinking in the Eight Habits.
Share this with your kids in high school, and definitely before they head off to college.
Dave
Rating:  - Marketing Tool
I bought this book NEW at a bookstore that was going out of business.
I was really enjoying reading it until I got to Chapter 3, which directs you to go online and take their StrengthsFinder test using the "unique" code on the jacket of the book.
I was disgusted to learn that someone has already used the code (or so I am told by the FAQ on the site). Then I realized that this entire book, which reads remarkably fast and could probably be condensed down to 50 pages, is just ... Read More
Rating: - Now Discover Your Strengths
Fantastic book as an individual read or as a team in the work environment. Easy to read and understand and at the end you have the results of the Strengths Finder Survey and a concrete set of steps to help you begin assessing your current work and personal decisions so they "play to your Strengths" Every Manager should have their team read this and share their strengths.
Rating: - a required read that was a pleasure to read
This was required for a class I was taking in college to get my EdS degree, but it was one of the best books I read in the program. This book helps people discover their own strengths and encourages them to accentuate those strengths while trying not to focus on any weaknesses. It's a great self-help book that I'm glad I had to read because it truly enhanced my life.
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