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"Now, Discover Your Strengths: How to Develop Your Talents
and Those of the People You Manage"
Author: Marcus
Buckingham, Donald Clifton
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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 the origin of disease, we become experts in our weaknesses
and spend our lives trying to repair these flaws, while our strengths
lie dormant and neglected.
Marcus Buckingham and Donald O Clifton's 'Now, Discover Your Strengths'
proposes a unique approach to managing personnel: focus on enhancing
people's strengths rather than eliminating their weaknesses. Effectively
managing personnel--as well as one's own behaviour--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. 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 Maximiser)
and explains how to build a "strengths-based organisation" by capitalising
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 Organisation and instantly discover their
own top five inborn talents. This device provides a personalised 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.
With accessible and profound insights on how to turn talents into
strengths, and with the immediate on-line feedback of StrengthsFinder(r)
at its core, Now, Discover Your Strengths is one of the most ground-breaking
and useful business books ever written.
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