Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

What a disappointment. This book contains two parts, Part 1 and Part 2. Part 1 gives you 30 pages on the background of strengths.It does very little delving into the science behind the work like the first book. Part 2 is a description of the Strengths themes. Unlike the first book where you have a section on describing the strengths and a section that discusses managing someone with the strength (which is very detailed and helpful for managers)this book reduces discussion on managing others with their strengths to a few bullet points. The first book has THREE sections instead of two and a full seven chapters compared to 2.0's two sections without chapters. In the first book the first chapter gives you the background on strengths, the second chapter describes how to build your strengths, the third chapter discusses the strengths assessment instrument, the fourth chapter goes deep on the 34 strength themes,the fifth chapter goes into commonly asked questions about strengths, the sixth chapter discusses managing people by their strengths and the seventh chapter discusses building a strengths based organization. The first book has over 247 pages that are nearly twice the size of the 174 pages of 2.0 which has much smaller pages as it is more of a handbook size than a traditional book size. Please don't shell out your cash for this Cliff Note version of the real thing!