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| StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths | 
 enlarge | Author: Tom Rath
Publisher: Gallup Press
Category: Book
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Pages: 192
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Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5 x 1
ISBN: 159562015X
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.314
EAN: 9781595620156
ASIN: 159562015X
Publication Date: February 1, 2007
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Product Description
DO YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO WHAT YOU DO BEST EVERY DAY?
Chances are, you don't. All too often, our natural talents go untapped. From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to fixing our shortcomings than to developing our strengths.
To help people uncover their talents, Gallup introduced the first version of its online assessment, StrengthsFinder, in the 2001 management book Now, Discover Your Strengths. The book spent more than five years on the bestseller lists and ignited a global conversation, while StrengthsFinder helped millions to discover their top five talents.
In its latest national bestseller, StrengthsFinder 2.0, Gallup unveils the new and improved version of its popular assessment, language of 34 themes, and much more (see below for details). While you can read this book in one sitting, you'll use it as a reference for decades.
Loaded with hundreds of strategies for applying your strengths, this new book and accompanying website will change the way you look at yourself -- and the world around you -- forever.
AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY IN THE NEW & UPGRADED EDITION OF STRENGTHSFINDER 2.0
(using the unique access code included with each book)
* A new and upgraded edition of the StrengthsFinder assessment
* A personalized Strengths Discovery and Action-Planning Guide for applying your strengths in the next week, month, and year
* A more customized version of your top five theme report
* 50 Ideas for Action (10 strategies for building on each of your top five themes)
* The more user-friendly StrengthsFinder 2.0 companion website, with a strengths community area, library of downloadable discussion guides and activities, a strengths screensaver, and a program for creating display cards of your top five themes
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 Great if you haven't read "Now, Discover Your Strengths" and taken Strengthsfinder February 20, 2007
144 out of 165 found this review helpful
If you've read Buckingham's books (esp. "Now, Discover Your Strengths") it's hard to say there's much more here. In fact, there isn't. The stickers you can paste on the front of the book and printable door hangers are silly gimmicks, and there is very little new information on your themes.
Is the test really any better or more accurate? It's impossible to say. The book says in most cases you'll end up with four of the same five themes.
If you take the test again and get one or two "new" top 5 themes, you've gained some insight I suppose. This begs the question, why doesn't Gallup rank your strengths 1 through 34 instead of giving you a glimpse of the top 5 only?
This is merely an extra entry fee to move the curtain only slightly. If you're a strengths-based fanatic like me, go ahead and buy it. But be warned, Rath is no Buckingham. "Now Discover" is a vastly superior book.
 "Mirror, mirror on the wall...." April 4, 2007
89 out of 103 found this review helpful
You will probably find no head-snapping revelations in this book if you have already read Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman's First, Break All the Rules and/or Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton's Now, Discover Your Strengths (especially the latter). Nor does Tom Rath claim to offer any. Rather, this is a new and upgraded edition of the Gallup organization's previous online test (StrengthsFinder 1.0) that enables those who take it to identify and measure their talents relative to "more than 5,000 new personalized Strengths Insights that we have discovered in recent years."
In Rath's two previously published books, How Full Is Your Bucket? co-authored with Donald O. Clifton and Vital Friends, he shares his own reactions to an abundance of research data which reveals the importance of two separate but related forces which have profound impact on the workplace: getting strengths in alignment with work to be done and then developing them even more with strategic delegation and close supervision.
What we have in this book, Strengths Finder 2.0, is a wealth of new research material that Rath examines with exceptional precision and uncommon eloquence. I strongly encourage each reader to take full advantage of the self-diagnostic opportunities that both Rath and the Gallup organization generously offer. Of course, once various exercises are completed, a significant challenge remains: to take effective and productive action to apply what has been learned. It is helpful to be aware of what Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton so aptly characterize as the "knowing-doing" and "doing-knowing" gaps. It is also helpful to recall Peter Drucker's observation more than 40 years ago: "There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all."
Presumably Rath agrees that, more often than not, the Yoda is right: "Do or do not. There is no try."
New and Improved. YES! February 13, 2007
53 out of 67 found this review helpful
I just received my 5 copies this past week (yes, I'm a "dealer")and I'm greatly impressed with the upgrades they've made to the book. Gallup has streamlined the book to serve more like a small manual for people taking the online instrument, without the other data and commentary present in "Now, Discover Your Strengths". They have wisely put the codes in an enclosed envelope to prevent "code stealing". The book is also linked to a new version of their website that contains improved interpretation resources and personalized reports. (There are even options for what type of "certificate" you want to print out. Fancy)
The book also includes small stickers for each of the 34 talent themes so you can stick your "top 5" on its glossy red and white cover for a convenient reminder. Cute to some, essential for others. Buying the book is still the only way to take the online instrument, but now it's more affordable and streamlined. Let the Strengths Revolution continue!
 Buy the Original by Buckingham Instead. March 17, 2007
45 out of 59 found this review helpful
What a disappointment. This book contains two parts, Part 1 and Part 2.
Part 1 gives you 30 pages on the background of strengths.It does very little delving into the science behind the work like the first book.
Part 2 is a description of the Strengths themes. Unlike the first book where you have a section on describing the strengths and a section that discusses managing someone with the strength (which is very detailed and helpful for managers)this book reduces discussion on managing others with their strengths to a few bullet points.
The first book has THREE sections instead of two and a full seven chapters compared to 2.0's two sections without chapters. In the first book the first chapter gives you the background on strengths, the second chapter describes how to build your strengths, the third chapter discusses the strengths assessment instrument, the fourth chapter goes deep on the 34 strength themes,the fifth chapter goes into commonly asked questions about strengths, the sixth chapter discusses managing people by their strengths and the seventh chapter discusses building a strengths based organization.
The first book has over 247 pages that are nearly twice the size of the 174 pages of 2.0 which has much smaller pages as it is more of a handbook size than a traditional book size.
Please don't shell out your cash for this Cliff Note version of the real thing!
No good for libraries May 21, 2007
30 out of 40 found this review helpful
To take the test you need to go online and access it using a unique password provided with the book. Libraries should not waste their money. The book is only useful to the first person who checks it out. Subsequent patrons will not be able to take the test and the book is of no use if you don't take the test.
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