This is an outstanding book that offers GREAT insight into an individual's personality. New books come with the must-have code in the back. The code allows you to access the 120 question online self-assessment. The results of the "quiz" will WOW you! They are extremely accurate. It pin-points your top 5 strengths. There are 32 different strengths and it identifies your most prominent 5. The book describes each strength, lists ways to work with someone with that strength, and tips for how to use that strength. I have used this book in a corporate setting and it is a wonderful tool to use when there are teams or groups involved. Knowing the strengths of teammates can greatly help people recognize how to work with someone (what makes them tick, what will be their greatest annoyance, what is the best way to praise them, etc). I have also purchased the book/code for several of my family members. It has been an outstanding resource to know my husband, mother-in-laws, sisters, and parents strengths! When I can identify what they are good at it helps my relationship with others. Knowing someones strengths can also teach you how to treat others based on their strengths. THIS STRENGTH-FINDER TEST IS MORE ACCURATE THAN ANY OTHER PERSONALITY TEST! It does not put people into narrow boxes. It is broad enough to take into account several differences. It would recommend it over the Myers-Briggs, Color Test, Animal Test, or any simple personality test that only has results of 3-5 choices. This has 32 different strengths and it adapts the results to your personal answers. GREAT TOOL! Some examples of strengths include: Achiever, Adaptability, Analytical, Input, Developer, Maximizer, Learner, Command, Self-Assurance, Harmony, Empathy, Woo, Includer, Positivity, Arranger, Communicator, Competition, Context,Discipline, Deliberative, Focus, Futuristic, Ideation, Consistency, Significance, Restorative, Strategic, Relator, Responsibility, Intellection, and Individuation. Order this book new... get the code... take the assessment... read the book for more info... WON'T BE DISAPPOINTED! :)

I have taken quite a few similar assessments when I worked in a corporate world. I worked for an investment bank, and the obligatory week of training every year brought in an army of consultants who sliced and diced your personality like a mad chef on a 30-minute cooking show. I actually got this book for a book club reading at my last job, so it found me. I could honestly say that as I looked through the book prior to taking the assessment, I thought I had all of these strengths to some degree, and so I was curious to see what came up for me. Fundamentally, I agree with the approach that we should emphasize and play to our strengths - I think about it as not going against my nature. My top strengths came back as strategic, self-assurance, positivity, learner and activator, and I agree with all of these. The assessment is very accurate. Here's where it got even better: when I scanned through the ideas for action, I was initially too lazy to highlight the actions to take, and so I put it aside. Then, a few days ago, I was pondering a course of action to take in a difficult situation with competing priorities. I was drinking a cup of coffee in sort of a state of stupor over what I needed to do. Right in front of me, in a pile of papers on my desk, there was a page with Ideas for Action for my Strategic strength. The first item read, "Take the time to fully reflect or muse about a goal that you want to achieve until the related patterns and issues emerge for you. Remember that this musing time is essential to strategic thinking." It was right on the money. I kind of always knew it, but I'm a doer, and I feel guilty about giving my plans some time to hatch. I took notice of this, and thus my conclusion that this assessment is more useful than I originally thought, as long as I stay with it and slowly go through my Ideas for Action over a few months. Nothing struck me as inaccurate as far as the Ideas for Action are concerned, but I found it funny that my Strategic profile urged me to "partner with someone with strong Activator talents" and my Activator did the same for Strategic. (The Strategic strength is anticipation, and the Activator strength is a need for action). Since I have both, can I partner with myself? Or do I need two other people? Of course, this is harmless. If you like these sorts of tests, there a few good ones available for free as well. A friend and I have been compiling a list, which we will post on my site at [...]. Each of them puts a mirror to our face at a slightly different angle.