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Now, Discover Your Strengths

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Now, Discover Your Strengths

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865331373

Unfortunately, most of us have little sense of our talents and strengths. Instead, guided by parents, teachers, managers, and psychology's fascination with pathology, we become experts in our weaknesses and spend our lives trying to repair these flaws, while our strengths lie dormant and neglected.At the heart of this book is Gallup's StrengthsFinder assessment, the product of a 25-year, multimillion-dollar effort to identify the most prevalent human strengths. The program introduces 34 ?themes" and reveals how they can be translated into personal and career success. In developing

IMPORTANT Information About Taking Clifton StrengthsFinder; Introduction: The Strengths Revolution at Work; The Revolution; Two Million Interviews; I; The Anatomy of a Strength; CHAPTER 1; The Investor, the Director, the Skin Doctor, and the Editor; Tiger Woods, Bill Gates, and Cole Porter; Three Revolutionary Tools; CHAPTER 2; Is He Always This Good?; Knowledge and Skills; Talent; II; Discover the Source of Your Strengths; CHAPTER 3; The Traces of Talent; The StrengthsFinder Profile; CHAPTER 4; ACHIEVER; ACTIVATOR; ADAPTABILITY; ANALYTICAL; ARRANGER; BELIEF; COMMAND; COMMUNICATIONCOMPETITIONCONNECTEDNESS; CONSISTENCY; CONTEXT; DELIBERATIVE; DEVELOPER; DISCIPLINE; EMPATHY; FOCUS; FUTURISTIC; HARMONY; IDEATION; INCLUDER; INDIVIDUALIZATION; INPUT; INTELLECTION; LEARNER; MAXIMIZER; POSITIVITY; RELATOR; RESPONSIBILITY; RESTORATIVE; SELF-ASSURANCE; SIGNIFICANCE; STRATEGIC; WOO; III; Put Strengths to Work; CHAPTER 5; Are There Any Obstacles to Building My Strengths?; Why Should I Focus on My Signature Themes?; Is There Any Significance to the Order of My Signature Themes?; Not All of the Phrases in the Theme Description Apply to Me. Why?Why Am I Different from Other People with Whom I Share Some of the Same Themes?Are Any of the Themes "Opposites"?; Can I Develop New Themes if I Don't Like the Ones I Have?; Will I Become Too Narrow if I Focus on My Signature Themes?; How Can I Manage Around My Weaknesses?; Can My Themes Reveal Whether I Am in the Right Career?; CHAPTER 6; "Fidel," Sam Mendes, and Phil Jackson; One By One; CHAPTER 7; The Full Story; The Practical Guide; Appendix: A Technical Report on StrengthsFinder; Acknowledgments