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I'd heard a lot about the book and am very glad that I got to read it. I read this with my previous work team and we found the discussions to be very meaningful, enjoyable, and helpful- especially as we went through the performance review process and when I landed in a new job. I highly recommend it. Part of the "strengths movement", this book has helped to validate and clarify things I've known about myself and provided me with new insights as well. I'm a huge fan of the Clifton Strengthsfinder tool and found the book to be a very enjoyable read.
One of the few management books that offers a new, evidence-based approach.We plan to incorporate into our culture.
But this book is an important contributor to personal strategy development and career success.Vaughan Evans, business and career strategistAuthor, BACKING U. Working on weaknesses may not yield them stunning success, but it could well enable them to keep their job and improve their lot. Individuals, unlike corporations, may not find themselves in the right circumstances to be able to play wholly to their strengths.
It is a forceful point, if perhaps exaggerated. And their dismissal of what I call a SHARPEN-ACT. The authors identify two principles they believe guide the world's best managers: (1) Each person's talents are enduring and unique, and (2) each person's greatest room for improvement is in the areas of his or her greatest strength.
strategy, whereby you work on your weaknesses in order to remain in the game, is not wholly fair. A Business-Oriented Approach to Backing Your Passion and Achieving Career Success Differentiation through playing to your strengths, a STAND-OUT.
strategy, can for sure be a strategy for success, but a low-cost strategy is also a proven alternative.
People on high performance teams report they call upon their strengths more than 75 percent of the time. It will never become a high performance team." How can you tell.
He also shares a very practical, six week action plan to identify and play to peoples' strengths. Buckingham provides a "dial" to show how engaged an individual's strengths are and, when combined, an entire team's strengths.
Beginning with the national bestsellers, First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths, Marcus Buckingham is on a single-minded quest to focus on unique abilities that energize and sustain top performance. Fail to pull it, and no matter what else is done to motivate the team, it'll never fully engage.
How cook is that. It's a philosophy that works for high performing teams as well: focus on and leverage the strengths people bring to a team.
More importantly, "a good team member deliberately volunters his strengths to the team most of the time." Buckingham contends that when you "pull this lever [focus your strengths], an engaged and productive team will be the result.
This book is very interesting, and my strengths identified by the on-line survey were completely right.
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