Now, Discover Your Strengths

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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.

What Customers Say About Now, Discover Your Strengths:

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 This a good book if you want to rethink what you are doing with your life.

At least I paid a discount price for the book, but I'm not really interested in reading any further, nor in buying their latest "upgraded" book. Then I realized that this entire book, which reads remarkably fast and could probably be condensed down to 50 pages, is just a tool to get people to go to the site and "upgrade" to the latest version of the online test. You HAVE to buy a book to get a code. Can you buy access separately.

I bought this book NEW at a bookstore that was going out of business. What a fantastic marketing tool to ensure that lending or selling the book is useless. And of course, when you get your book there's no way to ensure that someone hasn't already peeked inside the jacket and grabbed the code. 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.

Nope. When I say "marketing tool," I'm referring to the person behind this debacle. I was disgusted to learn that someone has already used the code (or so I am told by the FAQ on the site). How can you do that.

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. Fantastic book as an individual read or as a team in the work environment.

It's a great self-help book that I'm glad I had to read because it truly enhanced my life. 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.

excellent insight in terms of leading with your strengths. Also highly recommend "Running with the Rhinos" by Christian Warren as a companion book. Marcus Buckingham is truly an inspiring writer and this book really helps one identify their great strengths. I loved this book.