Book Review- The Truth About You by Marcus Buckingham

Marcus Buckingham's The Truth About You is a short read that helps the reader differentiate between his strengths and weaknesses. While conventional wisdom teaches that an individual should work to improve the areas they are weak in, Buckingham promotes the perspective that that time is better spent trying to enhance one's strengths. While you can't ignore your weaknesses, Buckingham suggests that time is better spent working to strengthen your strengths.

Here a some nuggets from the book:
Your interests are a very good clue to your strengths. Your interests aren't random.

Don't expect your organization ever to know you like you do. The organization will start with the performance it wants- a job that needs to get done- and then it'll work backward to you.

Don't you have some things you're good at, but they bore you, drain you, or frustrate you? You are certainly capable of doing them, and because you're capable of doing them, people keep asking you to do them- in fact, they come to rely on you to do them- but if you never had to do those things again it would be too soon.

People join because of the "Why". They stay because of the "Who". And, in the end, they quit because of the "What".

The Truth About You is worth your time.