Now, Discover Your Strengths
Marcus Buckingham and Donald O.Cifton Ph.D.





Format: Hardcover, 320pp.
ISBN: 9780743201148
Publisher: Gallup Press
Pub. Date: February 2, 2020 - 20th anniversary edition

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From The Publisher:

The 20th anniversary edition of Now, Discover Your Strengths comes with an access code to the Clifton StrengthsFinder 2.0 assessment. This updated assessment includes reports and resources that go far beyond the standardized reports of the older assessment by providing you with personalized insight statements unique to your specific combination of strengths.

Many people have little sense of their talents and strengths, much less the ability to build their lives around them. Instead, they are raised and taught to become experts in their weaknesses — and spend their lives trying to fix them — while their strengths lie dormant.

Led by Don Clifton, the Father of Strengths-Based Psychology, Gallup created a revolutionary program to help people identify their talents; develop them into strengths; and enjoy consistent, near-perfect performance. Twenty years ago, Gallup released Now, Discover Your Strengths to bring this program to the world.

At the heart of this book is CliftonStrengths, the assessment that is the product of decades of research and hundreds of thousands of interviews to identify the most prevalent human strengths. CliftonStrengths reveals 34 dominant talent themes that you can translate into personal and career success. To develop this assessment, Gallup conducted psychological profiles with more than 2 million individuals to help people around the world focus and perfect these themes. Since Now, Discover Your Strengths was first released two decades ago, more than 20 million people worldwide have taken the CliftonStrengths assessment.

The 20th anniversary edition includes a unique access code to take CliftonStrengths — previously known as StrengthsFinder 2.0 — which is a significantly more robust program than the assessment that appeared in the original edition of the book. This web-based assessment analyzes your instinctive reactions and immediately presents you with your top five themes.

Once you know which of the 34 themes you lead with — such as Achiever, Activator, Empathy, Futuristic and Strategic — the book will show you how to use your top themes for your own development, for your success as a manager and for the success of your organization.

With accessible and profound insights into how to turn talents into strengths, and with immediate online feedback from the CliftonStrengths assessment at its core, Now, Discover Your Strengths is one of the most groundbreaking and powerful business books ever written.


About the Author

Marcus Buckingham graduated from Cambridge University in 1987, with a master's degree in Social and Political Science. During his 17 years with The Gallup Organization, Buckingham helped lead research into the world's best leaders, managers, and workplaces. He drew on this research and used it as the basis for two bestselling books: First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Best Managers Do Differently and Now, Discover Your Strengths, of which he was both the writer and principal author.

A subject of in-depth profiles in The New York Times, Fortune, and Fast Company, Buckingham, now an independent consultant, author, and speaker, is considered one of the world's leading authority's on employee productivity and the practices of leading and managing. He is a member of the Secretary of State Advisory Committee on Leadership and Management. He lives with his wife and two children in Los Angeles.


Table of Contents

	Introduction: The Strengths Revolution at Work
	The Revolution	5
	Two Million Interviews	11
I	The Anatomy of a Strength
Chapter 1	Strong Lives
	The Investor, the Director, the Skin Doctor, and the Editor	19
	Tiger Woods, Bill Gates, and Cole Porter	25
	Three Revolutionary Tools	28
Chapter 2	Strength Building
	Is He Always This Good?	39
	Knowledge and Skills	41
	Talent	48
II	Discover the Source of Your Strengths
Chapter 3	StrengthsFinder
	The Traces of Talent	67
	The StrengthsFinder Profile	76
Chapter 4	The Thirty-four Themes of StrengthsFinder
	Achiever	83
	Activator	84
	Adaptability	85
	Analytical	86
	Arranger	87
	Belief	88
	Command	89
	Communication	90
	Competition	91
	Connectedness	92
	Context	93
	Deliberative	94
	Developer	95
	Discipline	96
	Empathy	97
	Fairness	98
	Focus	99
	Futuristic	100
	Harmony	101
	Ideation	102
	Inclusiveness	103
	Individualization	104
	Input	105
	Intellection	106
	Learner	107
	Maximizer	108
	Positivity	109
	Relator	110
	Responsibility	111
	Restorative	112
	Self-assurance	113
	Significance	114
	Strategic	115
	Woo	116
III	Put Strengths to Work
Chapter 5	The Questions You're Asking
	Are there any obstacles to building my strengths?	121
	Why should I focus on my signature themes?	131
	Is there any significance to the order of my signature themes?	134
	Not all of the phrases in the theme description apply to me. Why?	136
	Why am I different from other people with whom I share some of the same themes?	137
	Are any of the themes "opposites"?	139
	Can I develop new themes if I don't like the ones I have?	141
	Will I become too narrow if I focus on my signature themes?	144
	How can I manage around my weaknesses?	148
	Can my themes reveal whether I am in the right career?	160
Chapter 6	Managing Strengths
	"Fidel," Sam Mendes, and Phil Jackson	171
	One By One	176
Chapter 7	Building a Strengths-based Organization
	The Full Story	213
	The Practical Guide	218
	Appendix
	A Technical Report on StrengthsFinder

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