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Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Book Review Pro | Karen Pool
Author : Marcus Buckingham & Donald Clifton
Genre : Self-Help
In Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton’s landmark book, they suggest that most organizations are built on two flawed assumptions about people. 1. Each person can learn to be competent in almost anything. 2. Each person’s greatest room for growth is in his or her areas of greatest weakness. They are suggesting that is critical to change our assumptions about people: 1. Each person’s talents are enduring and unique. 2. Each person’s greatest room for growth is in the areas of his or her greatest strength.
The acid test of a strength? A talent or ability is a strength only if you can fathom yourself doing it repeatedly, happily, and successfully. These authors explore why so many people avoid focusing on their strengths and the benefit of discovering and developing your strengths.
“Building your strengths is about responsibility. Your natural talents are gifts from God or accidents of birth, depending on the articles of your faith. Either way, you had nothing to do with them. However, you have a great deal to do with fashioning them into strengths. To avoid your strengths and to focus on your weaknesses isn’t a sign of diligent humility. By contrast, the most responsible, the most challenging, and in the sense of being true to yourself is to face up to the strength potential inherent in your talents and then find ways to realize it.”
“This advice to focus on your strengths is easy to give and difficult to put into practice; and as you build your strengths, sometimes making great progress, sometimes slipping back, take comfort from the fact thatches is how a strong life is supposed to be lived. The process—act, learn, refine—clumsy though it may be, is the essence of strong living.”
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