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Unfortunately, most of us have little sense of our talents and strengths, much less the ability to build our lives around them. Instead, guided by our parents, by our teachers, by our managers, and by 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. Marcus Buckingham, coauthor of the national bestseller First, Break All the Rules, and Donald O. Clifton, Chair of the Gallup International Research & Education Center, have created a revolutionary program to help readers identify their talents, build them into strengths, and enjoy consistent, near-perfect performance. At the heart of the book is the Internet-based StrengthsFinder® Profile, the product of a 25-year, multimillion-dollar effort to identify the most prevalent human strengths.
About the Author
Visit www.marcusbuckingham.com for blog posts, keynote information, and upcoming events!Once you've broken all the rules and launched your career by writing an instant classic management book, what do you do for an encore? If you're Marcus Buckingham, you dedicate yourself to understanding what makes world-class managers excel, bottling it, and sharing it with the world.Marcus ?rst conquered the bestseller lists in 1999 with First, Break All the Rules. While the title may imply an iconoclastic streak, his continuing plea for managers to break with tradition has nothing to do with rebellion; instead, he argues, rules must be broken and discarded because they sti?e the originality and uniqueness - the strengths - that can enable all of us to achieve our highest performance. The goal is to provide team leaders with the insights and tools they need to turn talent into performance and drive the organization toward greater success and productivity.The de?nitive treatment of strengths in the workplace can be found in his best-selling books:First, Break All the Rules (coauthored with Curt Coffman; Simon & Schuster, 1999) ; Now, Discover Your Strengths (coauthored with Donald O. Clifton; The Free Press, 2001) ; The One Thing You Need to Know (The Free Press, 2005) ; Go Put Your Strengths To Work (The Free Press, 2007) ; The Truth About You (Thomas Nelson, 2008) Find Your Strongest Life (Thomas Nelson, 2009) ; StandOut 2.0 (Harvard Business Publishing, 2015) His latest book, Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader's Guide to the Real World (Harvard Business Publishing, 2019) takes an in-depth look at the lies that pervade our workplaces and the core truths that will help us change it for the better. As an internationally renowned thought leader and business expert, Marcus has been the subject of in-depth pro?les in The New York Times, Fortune, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal and has appeared on numerous television programs, including "Larry King Live," "The Today Show" and "The Oprah Winfrey Show." He is routinely lauded by such corporations as Toyota, Facebook, lululemon, Coca-Cola, Box, Master Foods, Wells Fargo, Microsoft, and Disney as an invaluable resource in informing, challenging, mentoring and inspiring people to ?nd their strengths and sustain long-lasting personal success. He now leads People Performance research at the ADP Research Institute and remains CEO The Marcus Buckingham Company (TMBC) .
