• The One Thing You Need To Know: ...About Great Managing, Great Leading, and Sustained Individual Success
• Now, Discover Your Strengths

Beginning with the million-copy bestsellers First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths, Marcus Buckingham jump-started the strengths movement that is now sweeping the work world, from business to government to education. Now that the movement is in full swing, Buckingham's new book answers the ultimate question: How can you actually apply your strengths for maximum success at work?

Research data show that most people do not come close to making full use of their assets at work -- in fact, only 17 percent of the workforce believe they use all of their strengths on the job. Go Put Your Strengths to Work aims to change that through a six-step, six-week experience that will reveal the hidden dimensions of your strengths. Buckingham shows you how to seize control of your assets and rewrite your job description under the nose of your boss. You will learn:

• Why your strengths aren't "what you are good at" and your weaknesses aren't "what you are bad at."

• How to use the four telltale signs to identify your strengths.

• The simple steps you can take each week to push your time at work toward those activities that strengthen you and away from those that don't.

• How to talk to your boss and your colleagues about your strengths without sounding like you're bragging and about your weaknesses without sounding like you're whining.

• The fifteen-minute weekly ritual that will keep you on your strengths path your entire career.

With structured exercises that will become part of your regular workweek and proven tactics from people who have successfully applied the book's lessons, Go Put Your Strengths to Work will arm you with a radically different approach to your work life. As part of the book's program you'll take an online Strengths Engagement Track, a focused and powerful gauge that has proven to be the best way to measure the level of engagement of your strengths or your team's strengths. You can also download the first two segments of the renowned companion film series Trombone Player Wanted.

Go Put Your Strengths to Work will open up exciting uncharted territory for you and your organization. Join the strengths movement and thrive.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Benjamin Franklin was wrong...
Comment: What I like about this new offering from Marcus Buckingham is that it pushes the reader to action...and not just a lofty list of "to do's" but action steps that are quickly apprehended and quickly produce results.

Benjamin Franklin said the definition of insanity "is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." I find that to be more the definition of humanity-we strive to change but somehow find ourselves repeatedly in similar conundrums. (To note, I think the definition of insanity is attaching a key to a kite and flying it during a lightning storm!)

The whole strengths series (this is the third book) by Buckingham gives great instruction on leveraging strengths...and when we (enevitably) get in the same situations we CAN expect different results.

This would be a great series for the human resources managers and bosses of the world. Don't we all wish our boss would focus on our strengths!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great resource for your toolbox!
Comment: This is an excellent book by Marcus Buckingham! I thoroughly enjoyed reading it and the case study he uses throughout the book really reinforces all of the key concepts. The journal pages in the back of the book (or you can download them off his site) are helpful in assisting you to identify which work activities strengthen you and which work activities weaken you. He shows, through case examples, how to minimize the activities that weaken you so that you spend most of your time on work where your strengths shine.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Good Stuff
Comment: I like the condition of the book delivered to me, it was no hype just real good quality. Thanks for displaying integrity without grity,lol.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: A MUST HAVE RESOURCE
Comment: Marcus Buckingham is brilliant! His research-profound! As a professional workplace trainer, I use this book and insist that my clients purchase copies for their management teams before I conduct their trainings. Yesterday's "Human Resources" is today's "Talent Management" and employment engagement! Another must-have is the previous book "Now, Discover Your Strengths" by Marcus Buckingham.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: The sequel game
Comment: Nutshell review - This book is a "6 step guide" on how to apply your strengths in work and life. But actually it's a just spin-off to milk the concept written in "Now, Discover Your Strengths" by the same author. Bottom line message = build and work on your strengths, not your weaknesses.

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