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 communicating your strengths to others on your work team and your supervisors.

An interesting twist to Go Put Your Strengths to Work : Six Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance is the option of downloading the first two segments of the companion film series Trombone Player Wanted. If you have found other titles by Buckingham useful, take a look at Go Put Your Strengths to Work. If you have never read him before, you might find his emphasis on working with strengths a refreshing change. --Maeve

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