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Determining Your Strengths + Putting Those Strengths to Work for You = Productivity and Profits

Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D. — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:14:19 +0000

Knowing what your strengths are and then working through your strengths will change your business and professional life. Here are three books worth reading (and I have read them more times than I can count).

Now, Discover Your Strengths – Buckingham, Marcus & Donald O. Clifton

I cannot recommend this book enough and even though it is not a time and paper management book, I often recommend it to help people with their productivity. That is because of the authors’ research-based philosophy that we need to spend our time, energy, efforts, and lives doing what we do best and helping those around us do the same. This is probably the book I have recommended to more people for a longer period of time than any other book I have ever read. It is life changing.

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StrengthsFinder 2.0 – Rath, Tom

After Marcus Buckingham left the Gallup Organization to start his own company (and write his own book… GO Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance – see below), then it was important for Gallup to publish a new book on the Strengths work that they have continued to do. And this is that book. For some reason, I was poised not to like it (who knows why), but I like it very much. It’s clear, provides excellent action suggestions for each of the 34 strengths, and of course, has the magic code in it so you can take the StrengthsFinder assessment. This is the book I now use when I’m teaching people about strengths. Order it today if you haven’t already.

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GO Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance - Buckingham, Marcus

Marcus Buckingham is the face of the strengths movement not just because of his writing but also his speaking. His earlier books that he wrote while with the Gallup Organization helped propel him to rock star status. Then, to top that off, he’s a fabulous speaker and communicator and thinker (and yes, he’s handsome, too). Now that he has started his own company, he is building an empire to keep propelling the strengths movement ahead. This book is an excellent read, you get to take a strengths assessment, and it has super nifty tools included (Love it and Loathe it cards, for example). HIGHLY recommended to be part of your library.

I do not recommend one of these books over the other. Because most of us need to interact with concepts multiple times to have them seep into our consciousness, it is worth reading all three.

I’m an avid reader and have additional recommendations for you at my website’s book recommendation page.

GO Put Your Strengths to Work

Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D. — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:21:47 +0000

Buckingham, Marcus. GO Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance..

Marcus Buckingham is the face of the strengths movement. His earlier books that he wrote while with the Gallup Organization helped propel him to rock star status. Plus, he’s a fabulous speaker and communicator and thinker (and yes, he’s handsome, too). Now that he’s started his own company, he is building an empire to keep propelling the strengths movement ahead. This book is an excellent read, you get to take a strengths assessment, and it has super nifty tools included (Love it and Loathe it cards, for example). HIGHLY recommended to be part of your library

Now, Discover Your Strengths.

Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D. — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:30:11 +0000

Buckingham, Marcus & Donald O. Clifton. Now, Discover Your Strengths.

I cannot recommend this book enough (although I have given it my best shot over the years!). I appreciate their research-based philosophy that we need to spend our time, energy, efforts, and lives doing what we do best and helping those around us do the same. This is probably the book I have recommended to more people for a longer period of time than any other book I’ve ever read. It’s life changing.

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StrengthsFinder 2.0 – Read It This Weekend (for a jillion reasons)

Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D. — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:05:17 +0000

If you haven’t already read one of the ‘strengths’ books – don’t delay. YOU need to know your strengths and you need to know others’ strengths, as well.

Rath, Tom, StrengthsFinder 2.0.

After Marcus Buckingham left the Gallup Organization to start his own company (and write his own book….GO Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance), then it was important for Gallup to publish a new book on the Strengths work that they have continued to do. And this is that book. For some reason, I was poised not to like it (who knows why), but I like it VERY much. It’s clear, provides excellent action suggestions for each of the 34 strengths, and of course, has the magic code in it so you can take the StrengthsFinder assessment. This is the book I now use when I’m teaching Strengths workshops. Order it today if you haven’t already.