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  • Book was alright. It is very centered around a method the authors developed for determining your strengths. This method involves you taking an online test that you must pay for if you did not purchase the book. (There is one unique key per book copy) Once you find your strengths with their test it t ... Continue

    Book was alright. It is very centered around a method the authors developed for determining your strengths. This method involves you taking an online test that you must pay for if you did not purchase the book. (There is one unique key per book copy) Once you find your strengths with their test it then proceeds to describe management techniques and such tailored to specific strengths. They even try to sell recruiting methods based on every prospective hire taking their test.

    That's all fine and well but it seems it would be much better if they made the data they collected and/or their test more open. How can you trust a test when you don't know what it is doing or if it is valid?

    With all that said, it was an easy read and finding your strengths is pretty fun if not altogether useful.

    

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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.

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