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Summary: The BEST book to help you find a good job fit
Review: I am going to be brief. I have been through a number of job changes over a thirty year career so far. This is one of the top books in its class-- for job hunters and career changers!Art Miller's book assumes you are created with uniquely motivated abilities that are written into you as your own internal job description. Matching this internal job description with that of an employer is what enables you to get JOY out of your job by flowing in the areas of giftedness that you are motivated to use. Imagine your motivated abilities as a water faucet. In a good job fit situation, you can turn on that faucet and let it flow. In a poor fit situation you have to keep it at a drip. Where will you be happiest? Where will your employer be happiest with your work? This book, (or a number of consultants out there-- check the web) will show you how to assess your motivated abilities, using Art Millers SIMA profile, or "system for identifying motivated abilities". Art started working on this system in the early '60's. It has been around for a long time and a number of major corporations, and churches, non-profits, are using this system to find the right fit for the people they hire. Take the job fit test at their web site for a taste at www.sima-pmi.com.
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Summary: A complete waste of money
Review: I found this book so extremely boring; droning on and on, chapter after chapter, about the importance of finding one's uniqueness, but never actually getting to the method. There was no structure to the chapters, just more and more of the same, on and on, with no end in sight and no clear method at all of putting anything together. If you want to read meaningless stories of other's so called achievements and then use them as a guide to yourself then good luck. I didn't find that process at all helpful. There was a lot of God talk, probably filler. How someone can write so much and say so little is amazing to me; maybe that's the author's particular talent. The subtitle is "How to become who you really are" but it could have read "How to be more confused than you really are." I certainly wasn't enlightened by reading this book and would say look elsewhere for guidance. I definitely recommend "The Hero Within" as a much better source of self understaning. I also recommend "Seven Kinds of Smart." I wouldn't recommend this book at all.
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Summary: Helpful
Review: The purpose of this book is to help you identify your uniqueness and build upon your discovery. He writes, "... you are the customized expression of a loving God." He describes the process of success as being ongoing and discusses how to maintain the momemtum. Discovering one's area of giftedness and building on that in a way that glorifies God is the essence of the book. He devotes more discussion on specific ways of discovering one's giftedness and how to apply that knowledge to everyday life. The weakness of the book is the extreme to which he takes his argument. He sees dramatic shifts occurring in society to accomodate people's giftings. His proposals are far from practical. Sometimes one simply has to work outside one's giftedness tempoarily, e.g., when one is in college. The first part of the book is the strongest. His insight is helpful in getting a better handle on how to live in a targeted, fulfilling manner.
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Summary: A complete waste of money
Review: The purpose of this book is to help you identify your uniqueness and build upon your discovery. He writes, "... you are the customized expression of a loving God." He describes the process of success as being ongoing and discusses how to maintain the momemtum. Discovering one's area of giftedness and building on that in a way that glorifies God is the essence of the book. He devotes more discussion on specific ways of discovering one's giftedness and how to apply that knowledge to everyday life. The weakness of the book is the extreme to which he takes his argument. He sees dramatic shifts occurring in society to accomodate people's giftings. His proposals are far from practical. Sometimes one simply has to work outside one's giftedness tempoarily, e.g., when one is in college. The first part of the book is the strongest. His insight is helpful in getting a better handle on how to live in a targeted, fulfilling manner.
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