Strengths Finder 2.0 by Tom Rath

To help people uncover their talents, Gallup introduced the first version of its online assessment, StrengthsFinder, in the 2001 management book Now, Discover Your Strengths. The book has spent more than five years on bestseller lists and ignited a global conversation, while StrengthsFinder has helped millions discover their top five talents. In StrengthsFinder 2.0, Gallup unveils the new and improved version of its popular assessment and much more. Loaded with hundreds of strategies for applying your strengths, this new book and accompanying website will change the way you look at yourself-- and the world around you--forever.

Only valuable if you can take the online test... but the test was cool and I'm excited to leverage the results with the help of my mentor at work. I also love the idea of flexing your strengths vs funneling all your energy into trying to overcome weaknesses, which I have spent my career hitherto doing.

If I had enough money, I would buy this book for all of my friends because of how helpful it was for me. The best part of this book is the code inside that will allow you to access the Strengths Finder online assessment, identifying your top 5 strengths/talents. The premise this book is based on really is quite simple but by no means does this diminish the importance of what is being presented to the reader - in essence, while we have grown up all of our lives being told that we can be anything we want to be as long as we try hard enough, that is not true. The author of this book proffers that in fact, we can actually become better versions of ourselves and this can be done by focusing on what it is that rejuvenates you, stirs up passion within you or makes you feel strong. These are areas that should be focused on and developed as well as serve as the lens through which we view those areas that do not have the same effect.

So worth the $12 or so I paid for this book on Amazon - everyone should read it and take the online assessment!!