Recommended by: WiseSuit Staff 

Do you truly know what your talents and strengths are? Or are you like most people who waste precious energy trying to repair their weaknesses?

In this classic book by Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton of The Gallup Organization, the authors ask you to stop trying to repair your flaws and start focusing on building on the foundation of your strengths.

The authors present the results of a 25-year, multi-million dollar effort that identifies prevalent human strengths. The program introduces 34 dominant themes with thousands of possible combinations and how they can be applies for success in your business and personal life.

The book provides you with a unique ID number that is used to access the StrengthsFinder® Profile online. A web-based interview analyzes your instinctive responses to a series of questions and produces your 5 most powerful themes. With your 5 powerful strengths in hand, the book then shows you how to use these natural strengths to maximize your success in any area of your life you choose.

This book and program is a great tool to, once and for all, concentrate on building our lives from a place of strength instead of a place of weakness. It is an invaluable tool for managers who must understand the strengths of the individuals on their team in order to place them in the right roles. It clearly outlines how managers can identify strengths in their team members and manage these strengths successfully.

The book also includes examples of prominent success stories including Tiger Woods, Warren Buffett and Phil Jackson, and details the themes that have created their success.

For long-lasting success, you and everyone else on your team must play to your strengths. Use this book, and get copies for your colleagues, to find out what these strengths are and build a successful life and career.

Reviews:

"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." - Martin E.P. Seligman, Fox Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, Director, Positive Psychology Network, Author of Learned Optimism

"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." - Ed Diener, Ph.D., Alumni Distinguished Professor of Psychology, University of Illinois

"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." - Mike Pucci, Vice President, Glaxo Wellcome

About the Authors:

Marcus Buckingham, senior vice president of The Gallup Organization, is coauthor of bestselling book First, Break All The Rules. A featured speaker at the Washington Speakers Bureau, he has appeared on CNN International, CNBC's Power Lunch, and NPR's Morning Edition, among other programs. He and his wife, Jane, live in New York City.

Donald O. Clifton is the past chairman of The Gallup Organization and the current chair of the Gallup International Research & Education Center. He is the chief designer of the StrengthsFinder Profile and lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Categories:  Leadership ,  Personal Growth