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Based on a Gallup study of over two million people who have excelled in their careers?? NOW?? DISCOVER YOUR STRENGTHS uses a revolutionary programme to help readers discover their distinct talents and strengths. The product of a twenty-five year?? multi-million pound effort to identify the most prevalent human talents?? the StrengthsFinder programme introduces thirty-four talents or "es" and reveals how they can best be translated into personal and career success. Each copy of the CD contains a unique pin number that gives the reader access to the StrengthsFinder Profile?? a Web-based interview that analyses people's instinctive reactions and immediately presents them with their five most dominant strengths. Once listeners know which of the thirty-four talent themes dominates their personality?? they can make practical applications at three levels: as an individual?? as a manager and within an organisation. Readers learn what kind of environments will allow them to flourish; how managers can bet"cultivate their employers' talents; and how almost all organisations inhibit the talents of their people and need to change.

Amazon.com Review

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. That said?? Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton's Now?? Discover Your Strengths does indeed propose a unique approach: focusing on enhancing people's strengths rather than eliminating their weaknesses. 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 Maximizer) and explains how to build a "based organization" by capitalizing on the fact that such