6N:227EXQ Human Resources Management Book Review Now, Discover Your Strengths

Introduction
This is a book written about how to find and best utilize the strengths of individual people to build the competitive advantages of an organization. The authors, Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton, utilized the research through surveys and interviews of over two million people, conducted by the Gallup Organization over a 30-year period to identify 34 themes of human talent and build them into strengths. A web-based strength assessment tool “StrengthsFinder” was developed help you find your top five talents - strengths, and you are able to compare your strengths to the explanations of all 34 strengths as described in the book. The second half of the book is focused on how to use the information you have learned to improve yourself, and people in general. First the authors outlined the series of questions and answers from individuals; then, there is how to “Manage Strengths”; finally, the book is wrapped up with “Building a Strengthsbased Organization.”

The Revolution
At the beginning of this book, the authors pointed out that given that bout 80 percent of people are mismatched or underutilized to the work everyday, most of us have little sense of our talents and strengths, and have been misguided to focus on our weaknesses and how to fix the weaknesses, while our strengths lie dormant and neglected. To excel in what you do and find lasting satisfaction, we need to find our strengths. Then, the authors addressed what the correct assumptions about people should be: (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.” Then the strength revolution is followed as “the great organization must not only accommodate the fact that each employee is different, it must capitalize on these