Now, Discover Your Strengths | Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton

Now, Discover Your Strengths | Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton | Positively Positive

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	Now, Discover Your Strengths Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton Free Press, 2001 - 272 pages average customer review:based on 330 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Now, Discover Your Strengths

This is an excellent book for all levels of managers. I am reading the book and reviewing it with the managers in my portfolio. Not only has it been helpful to me to learn their strengths it has been a real eye opener to them to realize how their strengths effect their work and how they have been successful in the work they do. I think it has also given them confidence in knowing they don't have to fix their weakness but grow their strengths. They are all very eager to learn the strengths of the people on their teams. I would highly recommend this book.

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Positively Positive

I came into this book series backwards. Started with "Now, Discover Your Strengths" and read this one second. Probably not the best way for most people, but works for me.I like the positive/strengths better than culture's negative/weaknesses approach. I see a connection between my Gallup strengths and my Meyers-Briggs personality strengths. I'm not a manager, supervisor or leader type, so I'm using the information only on a personal level. Reading and understanding both "go" and "now" has helped me stop wasting energy trying to be a "better person". Intuitively I knew that focusing on my weaknesses is futile. But it's always nice to have research to back us up and feel that we're not alone in our thinking.

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do your thing

Buckingham is leading a revolution. I'm one of those who have signed-on for this revolution because his book spoke to the depth of my being. The world convinced me to improve my weaknesses, but Buckingham affirmed everything I innately knew about myself and my ability to lead/manage out of my strengths. I'm forever indebted to Gallup's Strengthsfinder and Buckingham. The people I lead and manage are too. They now have someone who affirms their God-given hardwiring and wants to position them for maximum impact in their jobs, in their service, and in personal satisfaction. That's a revolution. You should join it!

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Talents, strength and weakness

I read this after it was mentioned and lauded at a conference I was at, and am very glad I did. I have talked with several people about this since I've read it, and it's prompted me to sit down with one employee to review his strengths and career paths within our organization that would help him fully utilize what talents he has. While I agree that there does not seem to be a lot of specifics about exact steps to implement these ideas, frankly I've found that a lot of the time when there are exact steps they don't fit the management model we have anyway.

I have also been thinking about the implications of this book as a mother of a pre-teen daughter, and the concern I have with self-confidence issues as she enters the mysterious world of teendom. While there is a book (by another author, forward by Buckingham) coming out Feb 2008 that seems to talk directly about kids ands strengths that I will get and read, in the mean time I think that several of the lessons are very applicable to understanding and raising teens. Rather than spending time and energy - and creating frustration - by working on creating a talent that isn't there, instead as she gets older we'll work on focusing on the talents that are there and ways to work around, compensate for, etc. weaknesses. That does not mean she doesn't have to do certain homework (!), but it will mean that the way we approach studying, getting projects done, and activities at school will be focused on playing to her strengths; hopefully building these skills to support her strengths will only help her as she moves on in life.

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