Beginning with the million-copy bestsellers "First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths, " Marcus Buckingham jump-started the stre...
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Mar 26, 2011
Daniel G
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Last year I was reading in Success magazine about how two coaches approached giving feedback to their teams. The first coach made the team watch the video of the game and he pointed out everything the team did wrong. The second coach also made his team watch the replay, but he pointed out everything the team did right. Researchers found that the team that improved the most was the one where the coach had focused on his team's strengths.
In "Go, Put Your Strengths to Work", Mar More...
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Sep 04, 2010
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Buckingham, an authority on workplace issues, provides a road map for managers to learn for themselves and then teach their employees how to approach their work by emphasizing their strengths rather than weaknesses. He offers a six-step plan for six weeks of reading and habit-forming action for discerning strengths, along with optional tools to enhance the process such as online questions for measuring strengths and downloade More...
from the library computer
Buckingham, an authority on workplace issues, provides a road map for managers to learn for themselves and then teach their employees how to approach their work by emphasizing their strengths rather than weaknesses. He offers a six-step plan for six weeks of reading and habit-forming action for discerning strengths, along with optional tools to enhance the process such as online questions for measuring strengths and downloade More...
Jul 15, 2010
Marcus Buckingham, author of First, Break all the Rules and The One Thing you need to Know, has a new management title - Go Put Your Strengths to Work : Six Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance. This title is a follow-up to Now, Discover your Strengths. Buckingham outlines a six week plan to with six steps. Begin by identifying your strengths and weaknesses, capitalizing on your strengths, putting your strengths forward at work and diminishing your weaknesses and then communica
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May 05, 2010
Matt
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Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance (2007), Marcus Buckingham
At this point in the game Marcus Buckingham is 1 for 2. The first book I read by this award winning author was lackluster, I thought. The One Thing You Need to Know didn't do it for me, but Go Put Your Strengths to Work did. Buckingham weaves the right combination of testimony, research, examples and opinion in his book about performance. In particular, I liked how he desc More...
At this point in the game Marcus Buckingham is 1 for 2. The first book I read by this award winning author was lackluster, I thought. The One Thing You Need to Know didn't do it for me, but Go Put Your Strengths to Work did. Buckingham weaves the right combination of testimony, research, examples and opinion in his book about performance. In particular, I liked how he desc More...
May 22, 2009
James
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This book purports to help readers unlock their potential. It comes with the consultant's boxful of throwaway concepts like acronyms (SIGN), myths, and worksheets. There are some useful references and, of course, help is available from the author's group if needed.
The general idea could be captured in a couple of medium length newspaper columns. This is the first thing wrong about this book. The author has tried to fill in the rest of the pages with forms, charts, and when those More...
The general idea could be captured in a couple of medium length newspaper columns. This is the first thing wrong about this book. The author has tried to fill in the rest of the pages with forms, charts, and when those More...
Mar 29, 2008
Melanie
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I am not going to finish this book. Even though my boss told me to read it. I got up to page 160, which was like pulling teeth. The book says you shouldn't do this that make you feel tired and depleted, things that you dread doing. Well, that description perfectly fits how I feel about reading this book. Unless you're a complete moron, it will bore you to death to read this drivel.
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Jul 12, 2008
Matt
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Too esoteric and not that helpful. Some of it is practical, some application is not. I think some of the skills he mentions are innately practiced by high-performing individuals, but the exercises as a whole don't add up for many. A bit of a snoozer for me. He is a bit full of himself, too.
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Jan 19, 2010
Kay
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If you find that you are frustrated and exhausted by your job, it might be time to figure out why. This book explores a basic fact: When we work within our area of gifting, not trying to be something we are not, we are energized. Time flies. We love what we do. There is NO job on the planet that doesn't stretch you and require you to work OUTSIDE your area of strength at times. That's when you learn to rely on God and on others (something not covered in this book). Still, the book does a great
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Aug 25, 2008
Robert
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In this volume, Buckingham quite correctly emphasizes (a) knowing what one’s personal strengths are and then (b) leveraging them to achieve desirable results, whatever the nature and extent of those results may be. He is one of several past or current executives within The Gallup Organization who have written a number of articles and books, based on a wealth of research data. Several Web sites now offer access to much of this information, notably gallup.com and BuckinghamLive.com.
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Apr 22, 2008
Gary
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Are you jazzed up at the end of your work day or
burned out? Do you look forward to your work everyday?
Marcus Buckingham is after working for the Gallop organization for many years inteviewed thousands of companies and people about their work.
And found out some interesting data from which he has written a series of books.
His thesis is simple...you will accomplish the most in life by focusing on your strengths. In fact, by focusing on your strengths you wi More...
burned out? Do you look forward to your work everyday?
Marcus Buckingham is after working for the Gallop organization for many years inteviewed thousands of companies and people about their work.
And found out some interesting data from which he has written a series of books.
His thesis is simple...you will accomplish the most in life by focusing on your strengths. In fact, by focusing on your strengths you wi More...
Jun 05, 2008
Lynn
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OK, True Confessions: I decided to read this book after Oprah had Marcus Buckingham on her show. What hooked me was the possibility that I might be able to make some changes to how I am doing what I do at work so that I didn't feel so drained and lifeless by mid-week. The whole premis of this book is to discover what your true strengths are - not just the things you do well - and to build your work day around those strengths.
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Jun 26, 2011
Mo
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This book has completely transformed the way I think about my work, and I'm really excited to start implementing the strategies for capitalizing on my strengths while reducing the time spent engaged in activities that are a weakness for me. I've started blogging about my process here.
Oct 15, 2009
Deb
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Why do we think we have to work on things we hate. Putting more effort into what we already do well and love puts us on an even faster learning curve and makes us feel GOOD! Had some great insight as to how to add more to your day of things you enjoy and thus be fulfilled on a daily basis.
Recommended by my big-reader son.
Recommended by my big-reader son.
Sep 05, 2011
Adi
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Why do I need Marcus to tell me things that I ... and I believe also each of us ... know already? Marcus smartly show us which we should look into and explore to reveal our strength and use them to our advantage. Nothing new ... nothing radical. Everything is there buried within ourselves and we know it.
Mar 22, 2009
Cheri
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I think I heard about this on Oprah. I really liked it. Unfortunately, I got it from the library and was unable to access the frequently referenced web site materials. There is a code on the book jacket only good for one use :( I still found lots of useful information and lots to think about.
Mar 27, 2009
Sara
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I'll say it again, I love Marcus Buckingham. He writes succinctly and intelligently about career success, about how to get the best work out of yourself and others, and how to build on the strengths you have and be a performer - exactly as the title would suggest.
Aug 02, 2011
James
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This was an interesting approach to finding what you are good at and working with your team or managers to bring out the strengths in you and others. There are some good exercises to do in this book within each chapter.
Nov 04, 2010
Jolanta
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I listened to this on CD and it did point out some good points about looking into your strengths and pursuing activities along those lines. For as long as the book/CDs are, it could have been shorter for the number of messages that it delivered. It did refer to a PDF that I did not have access to, but I felt that I could move on without it.
Oct 05, 2010
Sarah
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Since I read a library copy, I didn't have an access code to take the online test and find out what my strengths are. The book was still interesting without the information, but not as useful.
Apr 04, 2009
Lychee
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The most useful of the books about the Clifton Strengths finder. Although it probably helped having read some of the other associated work, and being at an organization that uses this work. Not sure that I'll actually follow the suggested program, but it does give me something to aim towards. Most useful are its suggestions for taking the "strengths themes" and turning them into something actually useful on the job. Wish I'd had some of these ideas at hand when I was younger and th
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Jul 24, 2011
Stephen
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Read MAY 2007
This is a must read for anyone struggling with being effective and/or lost in the mire of all the various systems and programs out there. Very simple. Very effective.
This is a must read for anyone struggling with being effective and/or lost in the mire of all the various systems and programs out there. Very simple. Very effective.
Mar 08, 2010
Drew
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As with the others in this series, this was a real eye-opener into what really motivates us and how to best capture- no, make that cultivate, peak performance from ourselves and our teams
May 01, 2009
Sherrilynn
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Interesting concept. Reminds me of the story of the duck trying to teach the rabbit to fly (or something like that) I listened to this one. I listen most of the time these days!
Oct 21, 2009
Neutrino123
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Yawn. Same as the last book by the fabulous Marcus Buckingham. Why does it take him so many pages to make a point? And then, I disagree with half his points!
Dec 23, 2011
Sahile
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Another one of those cases where I bought a book after watching the author speak.... didn't realize he had homework for me in the book.
May 17, 2010
Lenore
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Nice packaging of strength-based and positive psychology for the workplace.
Jun 24, 2009
Cara
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it's good as far as self-help books, but i'm not too much of a fan of self-help books.
