Description: Marcus Buckingham, coauthor of the best-selling First, Break All the Rules (T1009), and Donald O. Clifton present Now, Discover Your Strengths. This exceptional work challenges listeners to break away from traditional methods of thinking about how people utilize their talents. Buckingham and Clifton base their work on surveys of over two million working people. They discovered that only about 20 percent of people, worldwide, feel their strengths are being used to their full potential on the job. The authors believe this is attributable to the focus society places on personal weaknesses. Instead of fixing their negatives, Buckingham says that accentuating their positives will help maximize everyone's abilities and efficiency. A valuable resource for both the individual and the organization, Now, Discover Your Strengths gives listeners new ways to think about training and working. This audiobook also contains a special code so that each listener can take the Gallup survey online and discover their own top five strengths.
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Marcus Buckingham spent seventeen years at Gallup, where he conducted research into the world's best leaders, managers, and workplaces. The Gallup research later became the basis for the bestselling books First, Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths, both of which he coauthored. Buckingham has been the subject of in-depth profiles in the New York Times, Fortune, Businessweek, and Fast Company. In 2007 he founded the Marcus Buckingham Company to create strengths-based management training solutions for organizations worldwide, and now spreads the strengths message in keynote addresses to over 250,000 people around the globe each year. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and children.