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Love + Work
In this eye-opening, uplifting book, Buckingham shows you how to break free from conformity - how to decode your own loves, turn them into their most powerful expression, and do the same for those you lead and those you love.
Nine Lies About Work
The time has come for a manifesto for truth and change at work. Co-authored with Ashley Goodall (former SVP of Team Intelligence at Cisco), %%Nine Lies about Work: A Freethinking Leader's Guide to the Real World%% exposes engaging stories of freethinkers who cut through the dogma, platitudes, and hollowness of work today, backed by unimpeachable data about how humans actually work.
StandOut 2.0
Taking the concepts and strengths assessment introduced in %%StandOut%% to the next level, %%StandOut 2.0%% launched an entire performance toolset that enables team leaders to leverage a strengths-based approach to leading, every day.
StandOut
This revolutionary book and online strengths assessment goes beyond describing people's strengths to provide targeted, prescriptive strategies for how they can leverage the best of themselves to win at work. %%StandOut%% guides people in discovering and activating their top two strength Roles - their instinctive way of making a difference in the world. Based on decades of research and analysis of the world's top performers, %%StandOut%% offers sharp, practical, customized ideas that can help people to maximize their strength Roles at work every day.
Find Your Strongest Life
Given all the gains that women have made in the past four decades, why do recent studies reveal that, in the aggregate, they have gradually become less happy than they were 40 years ago? And what can women today do to reverse that trend? %%Find Your Strongest Life%% examines the data behind the headlines and focuses on tips and tactics to help women build happier, more fulfilled lives by focusing on their own greatest strengths.
The Truth About You
Featuring a series of focused exercises, a DVD, and a reMEMO pad, The Truth About You is a revolutionary toolkit designed to help create higher satisfaction and performance in life and work. Perfect for high school and college students, young professionals, and people simply wanting to revitalize their careers, The Truth About You helps people develop the kind of clarity and passion that drives a successful and satisfying future.
Go Put Your Strengths to Work
Beginning from data showing that fewer than twenty percent of people play to their strengths most of the time in their jobs, %%Go Put Your Strengths to Work%% outlines a method for individuals to overcome obstacles (including their own doubts), identify their own strengths, and put them to use at work. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, Marcus Buckingham demonstrates why each individual is the best judge of their own strengths, and shows people how they can transform their jobs into labors of love.
The One Thing You Need to Know
Great managing, great leading, and career success - one controlling insight lies at the heart of each of these, and Marcus Buckingham draws on a wealth of examples to reveal the one thing you need to know. Lose sight of this "one thing" and even your best efforts will be diminished or compromised. Success comes to those who remain mindful of the core insight, understand all of its ramifications, and orient their decisions toward it.
Now, Discover Your Strengths
Based on 25 years of research, %%Now, Discover Your Strengths%% identifies 34 dominant talent themes and helps people understand the nature of their own particular combinations of talents. Putting the focus on enhancing strengths rather than on improving in areas of weakness, Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton provide a blueprint for understanding personal strengths and managing particular talent themes in the workplace.
First, Break All the Rules
The book that started it all explains why the world's greatest team leaders flout conventional wisdom by breaking the golden rule, playing favorites, and turning their focus away from improving people's weaknesses. Relying on survey data and thousands of interviews with a wide range of team leaders, Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman expose the deficiencies of standard management thinking.
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