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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.

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Frederic

Less is more, they say. Well, not always.

Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2009

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After lead researcher Donald Clifton left this world and Marcus Buckingham left to found his own firm, Gallup leadership must have wondered how they could milk the Now, Discover Your Strengths cash cow. It seems Strengths Finder 2.0 a "NEW & UPGRADED Edition of the Online Test from Gallup's" was their answer: a beautiful little book in a shiny white cover, with a powerful red font and the "2.0' that was all the rage in `07-'08.

Since "2.0' embodies new, what's new? Well, the author: Tom Rath, Global Practice Leader for Workplace and Leadership, and author of great books we will review in time: How full is your bucket?, Strengths Based Leadership. My question to him is: what did you write in this one?

Anything else? Yes. The book is a lot lighter, and unfortunately, it really is what they say on the cover: a "NEW & UPGRADED Edition of the online test"; not a new book. As far as content, you will find:

* a short section explains what strengths are in Clifton/Gallup speak. Section is verbatim the first edition's.
* a longer section describes one by one the 34 strengths from the Clifton StrengthsFinder. It has a lot less content. The litte additional content is already available on the website. As far as "real change":
..1. Two strengths have changed name: Consistency became Fairness and Inclusiveness became Includer, but the descriptions remain the same, verbatim.
..2. The strengths descriptions are a little different from Now, Discover Your Strengths: the "Introduction" and "examples" remain the same; the "Ideas for action" replicate the recommendations you on the website after passing the test, and the "Working with others who have..." section is a shorter version of Now, Discover Your Strengths "Managing Strengths" section.
* a passcode, the real core of the book, enables you to pass the test on Gallup site. The test is said to be shorter, but I did not notice a significant difference. It is said the insights are better, but I am not convinced I did get anything that was not in the first book.

Enough for the rant. What will you get from this book?

In case you would not know the Clifton Strengths Finder, it is the result of a massive study on the workplace that Gallup conducted over the course of 25 years, interviewing millions of people. One of the results, the 34 strengths are patterns that can be combined, in the spirit of architect Christopher Alexander's work The Timeless Way of Building, to create not building and communities but individuals.

You will learn two key principles from this study:

* "You cannot be anything you want to be.
But you can be a lot more of who you already are."
* Strengths (ability to consistently provide near-perfect performance) = Talent (a natural way of thinking, feeling or behaving) x Investment (time spent practicing, developing your skills, and building your knowledge base)

You will learn about the 34 strengths: Achiever, Activator, Adaptability, Analytical, Arranger, Belief, Command, Communication, Competition, Consistency, Context, Deliberative, Connectedness, Developer, Discipline, Empathy, Focus, Futuristic, Harmony, Ideation, Includer, Individualization, Input, Intellection, Learner, Maximizer, Positivity, Relator, Responsibility, Restorative, Self-Assurance, Significance, Strategic, Woo. This is a long list. You do not need to learn them or know them all.

You will learn about your own strengths, how they manifest, and how you can play on them. This awareness will be a great foundation or accelerator for your personal or professional development effort.

You will also be sensitized to the diversity of strengths. And you will discover ways to help others contribute as only they can and build productive interactions with them. This is important for anyone who works with others (everyone?), but is critical for a leader or manager.

Is this book worth the price?

A thousand times yes, if you need to pass the test! The test itself is undeniably 5 stars. It seems to hit the nail every time, and people I have offered it to and debriefed had a feeling of "yeah, that's who I am", with a little bit of pride: a good basis of awareness and self-acknowledgment. A good gift for people you want to coach or mentor. As for the book, less content really means less outcome and still means less trees. Gallup Boo.

In closing, if you do not have Now, Discover Your Strengths, buy Stengths Finder 2.0, just to get a key at a lower cost, and get hold of a copy of Now, Discover Your Strengths, used or at a library, to read the insights of the final section.

If you have read Now, Discover Your Strengths and would like to pass the test again to see if these have changed or if the results are consistent, by any means, get Strengths Finder 2.0. It is $10 cheaper, and the insights are worth the price.

In both cases, it's just a pity to kill so many trees for so little new content.

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Chovy

Not actually a personality test

Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2012

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All the traits that it attributes to you are skills, not personality. One could argue differently, but in comparison to tests like Enneagram or MB, this is distinctly different... it lists a few attributes you are strong at whereas the other tests I mentioned attempt to describe you holistically and completely as a person.

I also really dislike the fact that you can only take the test once. I don't have quantitative data like the reviewer who mentioned taking the test twice without looking at the results and coming up with vastly different results. However, I bought four copies for myself and my co-workers and we did all agree that our particular dispositions at the time heavily influenced our results, and if we were to take it in a different mood it was clear we would come up with different results. If you have a more stable, static personality, then obviously you wouldn't have that problem... but for most of us, once you take the test and see the types of questions that are asked, doesn't take a psychologist to see that quite a few answers would change for most people given their circumstantial mood. And that would change your results.

I think what bothers me the most about only being able to take the test once is that they throw out a philosophical reason for preventing you from doing it that only too conveniently matches with a security measure to guard against a fear of people allowing their friends to log into their account to take the test as well. The entire experience comes off as disingenuous. The reasons they list are that 1. Your traits will rarely change over time as core personality is set once you have passed a certain age so there is no need to take the test twice and 2. Once you take the test and read the results, you will be biased in a way that would alter your answers during a second attempt. I could attempt to address these reasons logically, pointing out issues of environmental circumstance, pointing out the value of experimentation and learning that comes from taking any test multiple times, pointing out how fragile and susceptible the questions are to your mood once you actually take the test and see them, but I will just skip all my personal reasoning and let you judge their rationale using your own common sense.

With any body of knowledge, power comes from sharing of information and abundance. Gallup takes the other route and guards their tools closely, keeping walls of secrecy and coming from a place of scarcity and fear. What bothers me the most though is that they aren't honest about it... They could be up front and say that they only allow you to take the test once because they don't want people to share the test with friends or reverse engineer it. Instead, they use altruism as their reasoning. It ends up really souring the otherwise positive experience.

Anyway, it suffices to say that it is their loss and it's ours.

One other thing I dislike is that there is no attempt at trying to describe you fully, the test just highlights a few of your key strengths. That being said, I really enjoyed their philosophy of trying to lift up what is strong and develop THAT, rather than point out what is weak and focus on the negative. I do think that the traits are valuable to find out, and the comparative exercise of sharing results with people who also have taken the test is enlightening.

I'm giving 4 stars instead of something lower because of the inherent value of the test itself, even though these other issues are so flawed. That being said, I'll say that sometimes I shop at Walmart, because it simply has what I need, not because I like how they conduct themselves.

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Robbie

Genuinely transformative

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 17, 2015

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Ok, let's be clear. What you're really buying access to is the fantastic online psychometric test. I bought the kindle version of this as it's slightly cheaper. The book itself is fairly short: it contains an intro (about a fifth of the book) which explains the Gallup point of view. This is basically that if we all understood and focussed on our strengths rather than our weaknesses, we would be happier and far, far more productive (after decades of work on this, they have the research to back this up). It's articulated really well, and is really convincing.

The rest of the book is a summary of each of the different strengths, including how people with that strength might want to make the most of that strength, and how to work with people like that. But the truth is you don't need to read that for yourself, because when you take the test (relatively short) you get a personalised report on each of your strengths (ok, it's not totally personalised, but it adapted for exactly *how much* you have each strength, and the mixtures you have). And here's where the transformative bit comes in.

This personalised report really affected me. When I read some of it, I welled up. I hadn't felt that *got* for ages. And it opened up all sorts of things: I understood why I had left a particular job, which had mostly been a great job, I understood why I was so attracted to the career path I am developing into. And I just know that I will be able to use this going forward.

I work as a coach now, and I often recommend this to clients. Mostly they don't do it, because it costs £10 or so, and you can get free psychometric tests about strengths online. But the ones who take it find it transformative, too. It's WAY better than the free ones, and for me the £10 is one of the best £10s I've ever spent. Go on, get it!

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Midhun M

Ticket to StrengthFinder Assessment

Reviewed in India on September 28, 2019

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Pros:
1. Gives a unique access code (one time use only) to Clifton's Strength Finder Assessment and website which basis a series of questions right identifies your dominant personality traits (talents).
2. Details each of the personality traits for better understanding.

Cons:
1. Not a stand alone book - the book alone doesn't have any meaning but a means to unlock into your self.

Overall: must buy if you can find some time to complete the strengthfinder 2.0 assessment.

If you think my review was helpful, don't forget to click the helpful link below the review.

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Roundy

Beware hidden charges, not just a book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 10, 2018

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Beware ! I ordered this book on the recommendation of another business. There is a self test within the book that you have to take on the computer, a unique password is obtained in the back of your copy. The access code takes you to a page which asks for an email, address, phone number, place of work and position, all apparently important imformation required to proceed with the test. Alarms bells really started ringing when it asks for consent to terms, being a little sceptical I thought I would take a look and not just tick the box. They are lengthy and very unclear, by ticking the box you are agreeing to further courses and participation. Please be carefull

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S. Ward

Not a bad example of its kind

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 10, 2016

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Bought this as part of an initiative at work. You are essentially buying an enthusiastic introduction and an access code for an online quiz. The quiz follows the usual pattern in which each of the 177 questions asks you to choose somewhere between two statements that are mostly related but not mutually exclusive (e.g. 'do you like fish or fishing?'). You are given 20 seconds for each question, you may miss questions if you run out of time so make sure you have an undisturbed half hour. You may only take the quiz once. This stops you from checking their assertion that the outcomes remain reasonably stable over time (unless you buy another book). The results are processed in about 2 minutes on line into a report that comes in long and short versions and which you can save in PDF. The report highlights five (out of about 35) strengths that your answers indicate that you think you have. The report is fluently written which somewhat conceals the rather obvious fact that it is an automated assemblage of pre-prepared statements. It also includes some pre-prepared suggestions for what kind of work would suit you, some interesting, some hilarious.

So is it any good? Well you need to bear in mind that the report is simply reflecting back at you what you have 'told' the machine through your choices. So it is not really surprising that you will probably agree with most of it. If you are deluded in thinking that you are outgoing or analytical or empathetic or whatever then you will answer accordingly and you will then agree with your deluded self when you read the report; it will not independently reveal any hidden inner truth, how can it? At work, we hope simply to use it as a way to beginning conversations about what we are good at, or being able to say "I really enjoy X type of work" with a veneer of independent analysis. For that, it is probably good. For anything more, you will need proper psychoanalysis by a real person who pretends to care.

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Dreamidok

If you buy the Kindle Version you WILL RECEIVE the Code

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 30, 2017

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I purchased the KINDLE version but was slightly anxious it didn't have the code included. It DOES! You are sent it in a separate email.
However, I purchased this specifically for the Strength test as part of a coaching scheme I am on, having already done Myers Briggs and TMS quite extensively. However you are only provided with a report of 5 strengths. The others you have to unlock for a further 60-90 USD! Maybe this is sufficient, but the test then doesnt give you the full benefit and 360 of your strengths to fully utilise this strength based approach.
Every book and approach gives you new insights, food for thought and something to build on, so still worthy of following through if you are keen to find out more on your strengths

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