Now, Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton
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Book Summary Author: Donald O. Clifton, Marcus Buckingham Edition: Hardcover Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published) Published: 2001-01-29 ISBN: 0743201140 Number of pages: 272 Publisher: Free Press Accessories:
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Book Reviews of the Now, Discover Your Strengths
Customer Review: Assessment is great, book is mediocre
Summary: 3 Stars
"Concentrate on talents, not weaknesses" is a major takeaway the authors' first book, First, Break All The Rules.Now, Discover Your Strengths deepens that message with a web-based inventory to identify basic talents. My inventory didn't reveal any surprising talents. Rather, it took personality traits so pervasive that I wouldn't even have identified them as strengths and brought them to my attention. I've already been able to use the information to understand my successes and failures in work and personal lives, and am using it to help craft my future direction.
The book itself is quite shallow. It gives you one page of detail on each of the major strengths, and one page of bullet points on "how to manage someone with this strength." There's disappointingly little on how the strengths impact other relationships. How do I work with my BOSS? How do I work with my peers? How do I make my relationship work? How do I find someone with complementary talents (how do I figure out which other talents I *want* to work with?)
Though the authors say that it's the interaction between different strengths that create the richness, they don't spend much time delving into how strengths combine beyond a couple cursory examples. Certainly in my case, it's been the interaction between my strengths that has been most powerful.
The strengths are truly pervasive, and the authors limit their discussion to a shallow discussion and narrow application.
The book seems mainly an excuse to market the web-based inventory, which you're allowed to take only ONCE for each copy of the book you buy. You can't even buy more licenses without buying the book (a nice little trick to push book sales and probably get the book listed as a best-seller, when in fact all people want is the web-based inventory).
So while I'd love to loan the book to a friend, or buy licenses to have my clients take the inventory, the need to structure it all as the purchase of dozens of books makes the whole venture seem much less worthwhile.
The inventory gets 5 stars from me, the book gets two stars, and the marketing trick of one survey per book gets a whopping ZERO stars.