Now, Discover Your Strengths

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Summary: Play to your strengths
Review: I have taken many of the various "quadrant personality tests" that evaluate your responses to the various questions and then tells you your personality type. So I didn't hold out much hope of learning a lot that was new when I picked up this volume. However, I was pleasantly surprised by a couple of things. First, there is a password assigned to each book. With that password you are able to access a web site, establish an account, and answer a questionnaire which does in fact give you your top five strengths.

But what is most useful is that armed with the survey results and this book, you are not only able to know your strengths but also how to build on those strengths. What is new here, is that the authors break the mold of "work on eliminating your weaknesses." Instead, the advise us to pay attention to building up our strengths, to always find ways to use those strengths instead of worrying so much about our weaknesses. Sure, we do have to try and mitigate any negative attributes we may have in order to work with others, but the really successful person will work to play to his or her own strengths.

You will learn why strength is defined as "consistent near perfect performance in an activity." You will see why it makes sense to "manage around your weaknesses." And you will be given clear, concise guidelines on how to manage others through their strengths and help them manage around their weaknesses. I will definitely be using many of the principles and ideas put forth in this book as I go about helping my clients shape their corporate cultures and improve their effectiveness.

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Summary: Truly motivational....
Review: I was recommended by a friend to read this book. infact, I borrowed it.

When it comes to discover personal strenghts, I think this book has really done a wonderful job. And it also touches psychological aspects.

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Summary: zzzzzzzzzz
Review: Not only was this book not a page turner, but it help me fall asleep.

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Summary: More motivated to lead through strengths
Review: This book was a fascinating experience for me. I am amazed that at nearly 60 years of age, I was unaware of some of my strengths. I am motivated to pursue new projects as a result of the assessments in this unique book. I disagree with the author about weaknesses. Sure, we all have weaknesses. If the consequences of avoiding them are too high, then we must deal with them. I recommend Optimal Thinking: How To Be Your Best Self, a realistic powerful book that teaches the reader how to maximize strengths, and make the most of any situation.

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Summary: Not very deep, but empowering
Review: If you are used to reading about complex topics, you will have no trouble reading this book in two hours--it is not exactly intellectually thoroughgoing, and indeed some of its sidelines, such as the one on neurology, are so shallow that they could just as well have been left out. But apart from that criticism (or is it a criticism that a book can be read in two hours?) I only can recommend this book for its simple, but important and empowering insights.

Firstly, there is the observation that much of our vocabulary to describe personal differences is about weaknesses and defects and that it is high time to talk about strengths as well. Secondly, we have the insight that in order to develop what corporate strategists would call competitive advantage it is more efficient to develop strengths than to eliminate weaknesses. Both insights are quite common-sensical once you've read them, but utterly lacking in our culture. These two insights alone well justify the purchase price of the book. Together with the code for an online personality profiling of your strengths, the purchase price, the two hours it takes to read the book, and the 30 minutes to take the test will be an excellent investment for almost anyone.

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Summary: Now, Discover Your Strengths
Review: DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK USED!!!!
DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK USED!!!!
There is a code in this book that is needed to take a test and understand more than half of this book and how it applies to you personally. This code is used at a website to find out your strengths and is only valid for a one time use. If you purchase this book used your chances of that code already being used are very high. You will then need to get a new copy of the book if you want to take the test. WHAT A WASTE!

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Summary: One of the Top 10 Most Important Books
Review: This is one of the indispensable top 10 books& prodcts on amazon as far as I'm concerned for those who really seek to be the best that they can be.

The others on the list would be:
"GIANT STEPS" by Tony Robbins
"The Artist's Way" by Julia Cameron
"Voice Lessons To Go" audio CD by Vaccarino
"GODDESS WORSHIP" video
"Secrets of Sensual Lovemaking" by Leonardi
"Rawfully Good" video
The Bible
Family First by Dr. Phil
and the amazing DVD "NEW SEX NOW"