Now, Discover Your Strengths

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by Marcus Buckingham & Donald O. Clifton

The Clifton StrengthsFinder 2.0 assessment is included with the 20th anniversary edition of Now, Discover Your Strengths. This new evaluation contains reports and tools that go well beyond the conventional results of the previous assessment, offering you with individualized insight statements tailored to your particular set of strengths.

Many of us have no idea what our abilities and strengths are, let alone how to use them to shape our lives. Instead, we're trained and schooled to become experts in our flaws, and we spend our lives attempting to correct them while our talents remain dormant.

Gallup developed a breakthrough approach to help individuals identify their skills, develop them into strengths, and experience consistent, near-perfect performance, led by Don Clifton, the Father of Strengths-Based Psychology. Gallup published Now, Discover Your Strengths twenty years ago to assist spread the word about this program. The exam CliftonStrengths, which is the result of decades of research and hundreds of thousands of interviews to determine the most common human strengths, is at the center of this book. CliftonStrengths identifies 34 key skill themes that can help you achieve personal and professional success. Gallup performed psychological profiles with over 2 million people to generate this evaluation, which will assist people all across the world focus on and perfect these topics. More than 20 million individuals have taken the CliftonStrengths exam since Now, Discover Your Strengths was originally published two decades ago.

So, how does it function?

The 20th anniversary edition contains a one-of-a-kind access code for CliftonStrengths — formerly known as StrengthsFinder 2.0 — a far more comprehensive evaluation than the one included in the first edition of the book. This web-based test examines your initial emotions and provides you with your top five topics right away.

The book will teach you how to leverage your top themes for your individual growth, your success as a manager, and the success of your business after you know which of the 34 themes you lead with — such as Achiever, Activator, Empathy, Futuristic, and Strategic.

Now, Discover Your Strengths is one of the most pioneering and effective business books ever published, with easy and profound insights into how to transform abilities into strengths, and with quick online feedback from the CliftonStrengths examination at its heart.

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Back in the 1930s, Carl Jung, the eminent thinker and psychologist, put it this way: Criticism has 'the power to do good when there is something that must be destroyed, dissolved or reduced, but [it is] capable only of harm when there is something to be built.

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Back in the 1930s, Carl Jung, the eminent thinker and psychologist, put it this way: Criticism has 'the power to do good when there is something that must be destroyed, dissolved or reduced, but [it is] capable only of harm when there is something to be built.

— Marcus Buckingham & Donald O. Clifton, Now, Discover Your Strengths