The Truth About You: Your Secret to Success | 
| Author: Marcus Buckingham
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Category: Book
List Price: $29.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  71 reviews
Sales Rank: 8440
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 112
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.7 x 1.2
ISBN: 1400202264
Dewey Decimal Number: 650.1
EAN: 9781400202263
Publication Date: September 30, 2008
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Product Description
An Experience to Revolutionize Your Life from Marcus Buckingham - the World's Leading Expert on Career Success! Want to know what you are supposed to do with your life?The Truth About Youis an experience to unlock life's toughest questions. The process this revolutionary toolkit teaches will create higher satisfaction and performance in life and work. This cutting-edge product includes: Enhanced DVD. A high-energy film reveals how and why you must discover and prioritize your strengths and includes access to a wealth of downloadable resources, including five bonus Strength Tip videos. Interactive Book. With insightful exercises and tried-and-true life wisdom no one else will tell you, the book takes you to the location of your most powerful and unchanging talents. ReMemo Pad. Designed for a life on-the-go, the ReMemo Pad becomes your companion to complete the task of revealing your strengths using your everyday experiences. Perfect for high school and college students, young professionals, and people simply wanting to revitalize their career, The Truth About You helps you develop the kind of clarity and passion that drives a successful and satisfying future. Marcus Buckingham will help you discover the real truth, the truth about you . . . it will be your secret to success.
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 The Truth About You lands me the job! December 3, 2008
Knowing that I was about to throw myself headlong into a job search, I chose a relevant book. The Truth About You: Your Secret to Success by Marcus Buckingham is a new book package out from Thomas Nelson. (It's not only a book but included are also a DVD and notepad.) This interactive set is designed to guide the reader through a series of thoughtful exercises which can assist in determining the most natural path to personal fulfillment in one's work.
I have always been able to get the job I wanted, and I've also been employed in the staffing world for a few years now, helping others get jobs on a daily basis. I have picked up many tips and techniques along the way and have grown in my confidence and skill in interviewing (on both sides of the desk). I was slightly amused by this book's ultra-shiny cover and promise of "revolutionary" results; I tend to have a very high level of sales resistance and did not anticipate that the contents of the toolkit would live up to the publisher's hype.
I'm still not sure that I would use the word revolutionary. Unique, exciting, mind-bending, insightful, deeply thought-provoking, but probably not revolutionary. But even so, this package was very, very useful in helping me understand and define my true motivators, strengths, and weaknesses (and they're definitely not what I would have thought they were prior to completing the activities). I was impressed enough that I decided to give Mr. Buckingham's methods a try in my next series of interviews, even using some of his exact phrasing! Lo and behold, a local company is creating a position for me that specifically matches my strengths and skills and I couldn't be more excited to get started.
For such positive results, the amount of time required was very small. The DVD is short (about 20 minutes) but much is packed into that period. The book itself is also quite compact; it took me just a couple hours spread over two evenings to go through all the resources and complete the activities. I went back several times over the next week or so and added to my original notes as new insights came to mind, but even so, it was a very brief investment.
I can heartily recommend this toolkit for anyone who wants to take their natural bents into consideration when seeking clear direction for their future, especially when facing choices about higher education or employment. I intend to keep it in my personal library of career books, and, since I'm staying in the staffing industry, use it as a resource as I coach employees through the interview and hiring process.
 easy to read & implement, buy it at a discount though December 3, 2008
i heard buckingham a couple years ago at catalyst and was blown away - great, great, great speaker! very engaging and insightful. i've known people that have read his "strengths" book and been really helped by them. let me say this in one word about this book - letdown!
here are some of my observations...
* novelty packaging - i know its important to grab the shopper's attention with packaging and covers...but this is "gadgety" at best - it's packeged in 3 section: first a 20 minute DVD, then a 100 page book, then a "re-memo" pad - save yourself the trouble and just watch the video - then you've got it
* way too long - this book could've been written in 25 pages or less
* lack of spiritual theme - i know this subject matter doesn't require "support verses" from Scripture - problem i see with is that it doesn't have a "verse foundation" - in other words, it's purely based on observation of human behavior with NO reconciliation or reflection of Scritpure
* the "re-memo" pad is way to large to carry around - as advised to do
so, who is this book good for...those working with young adults trying to figure out their life's purpose, those in career transition or career discovery...those going through midlife crises regarding their job.The Truth About You: Your Secret to Success i wouldn't recommened this book to everyone and the price is prohibitive (lists @ 29.99 on back) enough to say that it should really only be for a small audience. i think the text and premise of the book belong better in a better crafted "purpose-driven" type book
Get to it! December 3, 2008
I've read most of Marcus Buckingham's work from Now, Discover Your Strengths to Go Put Your Strengths to Work, all excellent books on identifying and applying your strengths to your life and vocation. So when I ordered his latest book, The Truth About You, I was a bit skeptical. Was it simply going to be more of the same?
Thankfully it was! But in a very precise and to the point format! Where Now, Discover Your Strengths was precise in identifying strengths, it lacked personal application and direction. Go Put Your Strengths to Work focused in on that application, but was overwhelming in scope and direction. The Truth About You hones it all down to an easy and workable format that leaves one energized, focused, and ready to get to work.
My recommendation, get both Now, Discover Your Strengths and The Truth About You, you'll come away with the tools and knowledge necessary to take your life and vocation to the highest levels possible. Then, if you want to delve deeper, get his other books.
As a Strategic Maximizer*, I congratulate Thomas Nelson and Marcus Buckingham on this work - it is at its very best! The only thing I could add to or recommend for it is you, the reader! Take it, use it, and see if you don't find yourself becoming more than you ever thought or hoped you could be.
*Find out more about this in Now, Discover Your Strengths.
Truth of you needs some truth of Scripture December 2, 2008
This is one of the most unique interactive books I've seen--ever. Thomas Nelson and Marcus Buckingham have come together to create a package for the generation that is searching for more...
...you'll find some of it in here.
"The Truth About You" is designed to give you focus and purpose. You begin by watching a 20 minute DVD that comes with enhanced features, including Strength Tip videos.
Then comes the reading--110 pages to discover what makes you unique, talented, gifted, and well...YOU. Instead of taking what others believe about you and deciding on where to go or how to serve...this is time spent, just God and you.
Including in the package is a ReMemo Pad--for you to make notes, answer questions, and to remember the important details about this study; details designed to help you focus on what God has gifted you with and how you might use it for his glory and for your purpose.
Perfect for a high school graduate, a college student, or someone just seeking out more to this life than just existing, "The Truth About You" is what you choose to make it. Each part of this study is valuable; all parts used together pack the most power.
My one quibble, again, is lack of Scripture. Even if "The Truth About You" isn't intended as a Bible study--oh, the power it would pack if it WAS a Bible study!! Still, keep your Bible handy as you work through this self-examination of your gifts, talents, strengths and callings.
 The Truth About You December 1, 2008
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I have to say that I approached this book with a bit of skepticism. I first became familiar with Marcus Buckingham at the 2007 Willow Creek Leadership Summit. Even though we were hypnotized at his command of the stage and his uncanny ability to communicate to such large audience, we could not ignore the late night infomercial sales pitch that he threw at us. While I understand the Buckingham's basic thesis of working toward your strengths, as a follower of Christ, I cannot help but to be reminded of Jesus' words spoken to Paul in 2 Corinthians chapter twelve verse nine, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness" (ESV). Paul goes onto conclude in the rest of verse nine, "I will boast all the more gladly of my weakness, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me." (ESV). So if, the power of God is perfected in weakness and if "God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong" (1 Cor 1:27b) where does The Truth About You fit when the truth about me is that I am a sinner in need of a savior, not the "best advice I will ever get."
Buckingham's advice is five-fold: "(1) Performance is always the point, (2) Your strengths aren't what your good at, and your weaknesses aren't what you're bad at, (3) When it come to the job, the `What' always trumps the `Why' and the `Who,' (4) You'll never find the perfect job, and (5) You'll never turn your weaknesses into strengths" (22).
If performance is always the point, then we have all failed miserably. If my strengths are not what I am good at, then why am I good at what I love to do? If the what trumps the why and the who, then having purpose (why) and other people (who) no longer matter. I may never find the "perfect" job, but . . . he is right on target with this one. If my weaknesses can never be turned into strengths . . . see above.
This is only the beginning of the lies Buckingham wants to tell in his version of the "truth about you." His first of "Five things that sound right but aren't" should clue you in on Marcus' version of other people are objects to be exploited so that I can get to the top mentality. That is, we should not treat people like we want to be treated (101). With this rejection of simple common courtesy reflects the self-centered, cutthroat, with no awareness of God perspective that this book is written from.
To embrace the teachings of this book is to reject the reality that you are a creature of God. God, however, stands in the way of any self-absorbed plans. For too many today, God seems like an absentee landlord, and a foolish one at that--easily betrayed and cheated. The truth about you is that you are God's wonderfully and uniquely made being that stands as the apple of his eye. When you acknowledge the truth that you are in utter dependence on Him, even for the very air you breathe, then His strength can be perfected in your weakness.
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