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Ed Diener, Ph.D., Alumni Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of Illinois A 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.
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Dr. Frank Schmidt Ralph L. Sheets Professor of Human Resources, Department of Management and Organization, College of Business, University of Iowa This 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.
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Mike Morrison Dean, University of Toyota The 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!
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Martin E.P. Seligman Fox Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Director, Positive Psychology Network, Author of
Learned Optimism The 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.
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi C. S. and D. J. Davidson Professor of Psychology, Peter Drucker School of Management, Claremont Graduate University, Author of
Flow
Now, 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.
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Mike Pucci Vice President, Glaxo Wellcome
Now, 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.
Marc Notes:
Based on the Gallup study of over two million people.;Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-258).
Biographical Note:
Gallup Press creates resources that help people build better lives and solve the world's most important problems.
For more than 80 years, Gallup has studied human nature and measured what drives performance, achievement and wellbeing. That research has helped leaders, organizations and communities understand how people thrive and how societies prosper.
Every Gallup Press book is grounded in Gallup's standards of integrity, trust and independence and informed by Gallup's unmatched global research. Written by Gallup experts, these books turn insight into action, helping people develop their strengths, build thriving organizations and communities, and create a better future for themselves and those they serve.
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Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE "This book has been instrumental in how we think about developing talent at Facebook."--Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook CEO, as quoted in the New York Times &
Brief Description:
"Don Clifton, father of Strengths Psychology and inventor of CliftonStrengths"--Cover.
Publisher Marketing:
The 20th anniversary edition of Now, Discover Your Strengths comes with an access code to the Clifton StrengthsFinder 2.0 assessment. This updated assessment includes reports and resources that go far beyond the standardized reports of the older assessment by providing you with personalized insight statements unique to your specific combination of strengths.
Many people have little sense of their talents and strengths, much less the ability to build their lives around them. Instead, they are raised and taught to become experts in their weaknesses -- and spend their lives trying to fix them -- while their strengths lie dormant.
Led by Don Clifton, the Father of Strengths-Based Psychology, Gallup created a revolutionary program to help people identify their talents; develop them into strengths; and enjoy consistent, near-perfect performance. Twenty years ago, Gallup released
Now, Discover Your Strengths to bring this program to the world.
At the heart of this book is CliftonStrengths, the assessment that is the product of decades of research and hundreds of thousands of interviews to identify the most prevalent human strengths. CliftonStrengths reveals 34 dominant talent themes that you can translate into personal and career success. To develop this assessment, Gallup conducted psychological profiles with more than 2 million individuals to help people around the world focus and perfect these themes. Since
Now, Discover Your Strengths was first released two decades ago, more than 20 million people worldwide have taken the CliftonStrengths assessment.
The 20th anniversary edition includes a unique access code to take CliftonStrengths -- previously known as StrengthsFinder 2.0 -- which is a significantly more robust program than the assessment that appeared in the original edition of the book. This web-based assessment analyzes your instinctive reactions and immediately presents you with your top five themes.
Once you know which of the 34 themes you lead with -- such as Achiever, Activator, Empathy, Futuristic and Strategic -- the book will show you how to use your top themes for your own development, for your success as a manager and for the success of your organization.
With accessible and profound insights into how to turn talents into strengths, and with immediate online feedback from the CliftonStrengths assessment at its core,
Now, Discover Your Strengths is one of the most groundbreaking and powerful business books ever written.
Review Citations:
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Publishers Weekly 12/11/2000 pg. 71 (EAN 9780743201148, Hardcover)
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Harvard Business Review 02/01/2001 pg. 145 (EAN 9780743201148, Hardcover)
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Library Journal 02/01/2001 pg. 104 (EAN 9780743201148, Hardcover)
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Harvard Business Review 01/01/2002 pg. 107 (EAN 9780743201148, Hardcover)
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Publishers Weekly Best Books 03/23/2009 pg. 22 (EAN 9780743201148, Hardcover)
Contributor Bio:Gallup
Gallup Press creates resources that help people build better lives and solve the world's most important problems.
For more than 80 years, Gallup has studied human nature and measured what drives performance, achievement and wellbeing. That research has helped leaders, organizations and communities understand how people thrive and how societies prosper.
Every Gallup Press book is grounded in Gallup's standards of integrity, trust and independence and informed by Gallup's unmatched global research. Written by Gallup experts, these books turn insight into action, helping people develop their strengths, build thriving organizations and communities, and create a better future for themselves and those they serve.
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