StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's Now, Discover Your Strengths

By: Tom Rath

Gallup Press

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. In this book, StrengthsFinder 2.0, is a wealth of new research material that Rath examines with exceptional precision and uncommon eloquence.
Readers are strongly encouraged 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.”

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