Now, Discover Your Strengths How to Develop Your Talents and Those of the People You Manage
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (763 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0743201159 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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""Most Americans do not know what their strengths are. Once you know which themes you lead with, you can leverage them for powerful results for personal development, for management success, and for the success of the organization.. When you ask them, they look at you with a blank stare, or they respond in terms of subject knowledge, which is the wrong answer."" -- Peter Drucker Unfortunately, most of us have little sense of our talents and strengths. At the heart of "Now, Discover Your Strengths," is the Internet-based StrengthsFinder(R) Profile, the product of a 25-year, multimillion dollar effort to identify the most prevalent human strengths. This audiobook contains a unique identification number that allows you access to the StrengthsFinder(R) Profile on the Internet. This Web-based interview analyzes your instinctive reactions and immediately presents you with your five most powerful themes. The program introduces 34 dominant "themes" with thousands of possible combinations, and reveals how they can best be translated in
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"You can't lead a strengths revolution if you don't know how to find, name and develop your own," write Buckingham and Clifton. Clifton's Now, Discover Your Strengths does indeed propose a unique approach: focusing on enhancing people's strengths rather than eliminating their weaknesses. 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. 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. --Howard Rothman. That said, Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Following up on the coauthors' popular previous book, First, Break All the Rules, it fully describes 34 positive personality