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Now, Discover Your strengths (Audio CD)
by Marcus Buckingham (Narrator), Donald O. Clifton
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| Market price: ¥ 268.00
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| MSL Pointer Review:
Focusing on using strengths rather than weaknesses in developing an effective and efficient workforce, this excellent follow-up to First, Break All The Rules, another top-tier business classic. |
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Mary Sibley (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-19 00:00>
Warren Buffett used his patience, a strength, to devise his twenty year investment strategy. A person should identify the strongest threads of his pattern, make-up. Strength is consistent near-perfect performance in an activity. There is the genius of Bill Gates exemplified in taking an innovation and transforming it to a user-friendly application.
Talent, knowledge, and skill constitute strengths. Identifying dominant talents is crucial. Unfortunately the language of human weakness is dense and the language of strength is sparse.
Skills bring structure to experiential knowledge. Skills are necessary to avoid trial and error. Identifying talents is important because a lot of action is instinctive. Talents, the strongest synaptic connections, are raw material for strength-building.
Yearnings reflect talent. Sometimes implementation doesn't take place until late in life - Grandma Moses, Penelope Fitzgerald. Rapid learning may signify talent. Twenty-four per cent of the people believe that strengths determine success. This figure is disturbingly low. In education there is focus on weakness and this extends to work-place training efforts. Fear of failure is difficult to dislodge.
This book is a product of the Gallup Organization. The conclusions reached by the authors are surprising, noteworthy. |
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Bradley Lacke (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-19 00:00>
This is almost a really good book. For all the publicity and praise, there is a uniquely profound and empowering Message here: Lose your inferiority complex; our "Performance" hang-ups are too often about trying to function like everyone else, instead of capitalizing on our own individual idiosyncrasies. Harnessing our intrinsic talents is the most obvious way to contribute something unique to our work and to our lives. Unfortunately, this message gets buried underneath the same tired Nu-Business tripe which assumes that productivity in the workplace is the ultimate human endeavor. It seems as though the authors' tunnel vision blinded them in the face of a grand revelation, and not seeing the potential brillance inherent in this book's premise, felt compelled to water it down with a heavy prescription of corporate "relevance".
Witness the uncomfortable third section of the book, where the authors instruct us, after discovering our own strengths, in the art of manipulating the particular strengths of our co-workers. Apparently if you got the impression that we're locating our talents and the talents of others in order to be happy and self-fulfilled, you missed the real point... THE BOTTOM LINE OF COURSE! The authors' attempts to pretend that some of these skills can be productively expressed in the Office, like Ideation and Intellection, are great for a laugh... "Give this individual time to sit and think... Listen to their 'ideas'... Dupe them into thinking their job makes any use whatsoever of their creativity... etc." Better advice would be for the employer to cut a severance check for their Ideationist and buy them a plane ticket for New York or Paris.
To wrap things up, it's a quick read, got a good central premise, and should be most useful for the Reader's Digest/"Oh Boy Now I'll Get That Promotion!" set. For everyone else i'd recommend that you take to heart the point being made by this book... and put the $17 bucks towards something actually useful for developing your strengths. And keep an eye out for employers acting funny and talking about cultivating the uniqueness inherent in everyone. It's still the same game for them... just new rules.
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-19 00:00>
I bought this book after reading the reviews here. I expected in depth analysis of each strengths and possibly tips on how to build up on to those strengths and all I got was a short descrition of top 5 strengths and nothing more. Most of the book is about the theory that using one's strengths is better than overcoming one's weaknesses. The book had been much better if only a chapter or two were devoted to it and rest were left for an in-depth analysis of those strengths. If you can get hold of the code off the jacket of the book and take the test online, then the book is worthless.
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Kenneth Moultrie (MSL quote), USA
<2007-01-19 00:00>
I thought I'd place my premature evaluation. I call it premature because I have only reached chapter 5 thus far. This book is definitely refreshing - like a tall glass of lemonade on a hot summer day. I was intrigued most by the idea of a new paradigm in the area of improvement - focus on your strengths for improvement and not your weakness (as much) - so simple, yet so valuable. I would say the online exam is worth the price of the book. For me, I found it to be very accurate. Within the framework of this book, I have had the opportunity to reflect and see my strengths in my past interactions - VERY EMPOWERING. This book encourages you to be yourself (the best way you know how) because you have a mix of greatness that is unique to you. Here is your chance to know thy self. Enjoy.
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