eric1285's Full Review: Tom Rath - Strengths Finder 2.0
I feel cheated having just finished the book and its online test. The book contains approximately 30 small pages of widely spaced text explaining the premise behind building upon one's strengths. The rest of the book is devoted to explaining the 34 different "themes" or strengths. These descriptions are only somewhat useful since most of the explanations are pretty much what you would expect based on the title of each theme. They also include examples of what types of people share each theme. The most useful part of the descriptions may be the couple of bullet points that provide helpful methods of dealing with people that fall under each theme. This is somewhat flawed though because it stands to reason that if you're talented enough at gauging people to be able to determine what their characteristics are you ought to be talented enough to know how to engage them. That said, there were a handful of pointers that I found useful.
I suspect that what you're really paying for with this book is the online test, which is really nothing more than a Meyers Briggs assessment with some quick computer scripting to provide you some "personalized" suggestions and results. The test consists of 177 pairs of descriptors of which you are asked to select one from each pair which either strongly or somewhat describes you. Frustratingly, many of the pairs are not mutually exclusive in any way so you may have a very difficult time deciding which answer to select. I feel that in order to really make use of the test you probably have to know yourself quite well, in which case the book and the test will be of little value to you. I recommend anyone who is considering purchasing this book to first have a look at the variety of freely available Meyers Briggs assessments online. They provide a very similar self assessment and often include the same detailed and personalized advice to complement the test.
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