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Management’s strong man plays the trombone

June 7, 2006 by David Zinger 5 Comments

Marcus Buckingham qualifies as the strongest proponent of a strength focus at work. Here is a snippet of an email I received about his latest film: Trombone Player Wanted.

I’m hoping that you’ll be interested in my new short-film series called, for reasons that should become apparent when you watch it, Trombone Player Wanted…..the point of the film is not this boy’s story – his name is Ewan, as it happens. The point is to help you find your strengths and put them to work. All the data I’ve seen suggests that, for most of us, this proves exceptionally hard to do – in repeated polls only 17% of us say that we get to play to our strengths at work most of the time. Given that each of us is supposed to be our organization’s “greatest asset” this 17% number is alarmingly low.

Visit
http://www.marcusbuckingham.com/Film/ to learn more about the film. Best of all for those who like bargains, the short film series is available for $99 (the same number as Wayne Gretzky who displayed an amazing array of strengths in hockey).

I plan to order the set and I will write a review about the series.

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Comments

  1. ann michael says

    June 10, 2006 at 2:36 pm

    Reading this reminds me of that old saying “You have to bloom where you’re planted”. I look forward to seeing your review!

  2. zinger says

    June 10, 2006 at 2:55 pm

    Thanks for the comment Ann,

    It does make sense to bloom where we are planted as long as we do not get rooted there and become resistant to change. I await the video and look forward to reviewing the work.

    David

  3. ann michael says

    June 10, 2006 at 3:53 pm

    of course 🙂

  4. zinger says

    June 10, 2006 at 4:44 pm

    Of course you said of course given your strength and focus on change management. You make a look of good points about change on your blog.

  5. Jodee says

    December 10, 2006 at 12:33 pm

    I just purchased these CDs – I’ll be reviewing them tonight and using them on Tuesday with a group of salespeople who each has the Now Discover Your Sales Strengths CDs. They’ve all taken the strengths-finder questionnaire and we’ll see what we can create on Tuesday with the DVDs and their indexes. I’ll let you know!

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