Product Details
Simon & Schuster Audio, January 2001
Compact Disk
ISBN-10: 0743518144
ISBN-13: 9780743518147
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IntroductionDescription
"Most Americans do not know what their strengths are. 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. Instead, guided by our parents, our teachers, our managers and 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.
At the heart of Now, Discover Your Strengths, 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.
This audiobook 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 themes. 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.
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Mike MorrisonDean, University of ToyotaThe code for managing has been broken and the secrets for success are here in this book! We know this from first-hand experience -- with over 2,000 Gallup 'strengths' program graduates (and growing)
-- we will never look at our jobs, or our lives for that matter, the same way again. To achieve our greatest potential, this is by far the most important investment an individual or organization can make!
Martin E.P. SeligmanFox Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Director, Positive Psychology Network, Author of Learned OptimismThe keystone of high achievement and happiness is exercising your strengths, not correcting your weaknesses. The first step is knowing which strengths you own, and this superb book gives you a powerful and accurate way to find out.
Mihaly CsikszentmihalyiC. S. and D. J. Davidson Professor of Psychology, Peter Drucker School of Management, Claremont Graduate University, Author of FlowNow, Discover Your Strengths, based on years of research by The Gallup Organization, is a refreshingly sensible and user-friendly way to assess your psychological assets and build on them a successful and satisfying life.
Ed Diener, Ph.D.,Alumni Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of IllinoisA brilliant book that will help readers to discover and capitalize on their specific strengths, as well as assist managers in supervising people with varying strengths.
Dr. Frank SchmidtRalph L. Sheets Professor of Human Resources, Department of Management and Organization, College of Business, University of IowaThis book is built around a unique vision of the high-performing individual and the high-performing organization
-- and that vision is built on a recognition of individual differences and the unique strengths of each person. A truly important book.
Mike PucciVice President, Glaxo WellcomeNow, Discover Your Strengths is the logical, practical application of the theories uncovered in First, Break All The Rules. We have rewritten our management development curriculum as a result of this important and defining research in leadership.
T+D Magazine, July 17, 2009
...-- A fad swept through corporate training and development during the last decade following top-selling books such as 'Now, Discover Your Strengths' by Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton and a parade of subsequent titles on ...
PRWeb, July 14, 2009
...-- A fad swept through corporate training and development during the last decade following top-selling books such as 'Now, Discover Your Strengths' by Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton and a parade of subsequent titles on ...
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