Monster Pairs with Best-Selling Career Success Author Marcus Buckingham for The Truth About You National Book Tour
Buckingham’s Fifth Book Reveals Important Message to
Young Professionals about Career Choices and Life Improvement
MAYNARD, Mass. and LOS ANGELES – October 21, 2008 – Monster®, the leading global online careers and recruitment resource and flagship brand of Monster Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: MNST), today announced its sponsorship of best-selling author Marcus Buckingham’s The Truth About You national book tour. With a shared philosophy on the importance of work and life satisfaction, Monster and Buckingham deliver a strong message on the correlation between career decisions and life improvement.
Buckingham, one of the world’s leading experts in career success, speaks predominately to a Gen-Y audience in his fifth book, The Truth About You, Your Secret to Success (Thomas Nelson Publishers, $29.99), which challenges readers to put their strengths and passions to work. Through his book and university tour, Buckingham hopes to offer college students and the American workforce the ultimate edge in work and life. as he reveals that there is a science to success that can be achieved by those who fine-tune their work to focus on their personal strengths.
Throughout October and November, Monster will sponsor Buckingham as he continues his tour across 13 American cities, showing people how they can achieve true satisfaction and lasting success by pursuing careers in areas where they have a passionate interest. Monster and Buckingham are the perfect complement to each other as The Truth About You helps people shift the way they think about their work life while Monster helps people find opportunities that cater to their strengths and have the potential to provide the most job satisfaction.
“We are thrilled to sponsor The Truth About You tour as the book’s ‘living in your strengths’ empowerment message perfectly aligns with our efforts to help job seekers find the balance between work and life,” said Ted Gilvar, Executive Vice President and Global Chief Marketing Officer, Monster. “We are committed to the promise of inspiring people to improve their lives and in The Truth About You, Marcus Buckingham challenges his readers to do just that – seek careers that match their strengths and interests.”
“I’m delighted to have Monster’s sponsorship of The Truth About You book tour,” said Marcus Buckingham. The highly innovative team at Monster understands, as I do, that fewer than two out of ten people are ever able to enjoy a high level of satisfaction in their career. The goals of this book and this tour are to help audiences discover those key elements that will bring them the optimal professional satisfaction—and one step closer to learning the secret to their own success.”
Monster will be sponsoring Buckingham at the following leading university campuses throughout the fall. For more information about Marcus Buckingham or to purchase tickets to see him talk live about The Truth About You, visit: http://www.marcusbuckingham.com/site/ttay/tour.php.
Remaining Tour Dates:
October 22, 2008
Dayton, OH
University of Dayton / University of Dayton Arena
October 24, 2008
Ithaca, NY
Cornell University/The Johnson School, Kennedy Hall, David L. Call Alumni Auditorium
October 29, 2008
Memphis, TN
Rhodes College / Bryan Campus Life Center, McCallum Ballroom
November 3, 2008
Nashville, TN
Belmont University / Curb Center
November 5, 2008
Stillwater, OK
Oklahoma State University /
Wes Watkins Center
November 7, 2008
Azusa, CA
Azusa Pacific University / Upper Turner Campus Center
November 10, 2008
Seattle, WA
Town Hall Seattle
About Monster Worldwide
Monster Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: MNST), parent company of Monster, the premier global online employment solution for more than a decade, strives to inspire people to improve their lives. With a local presence in key markets in North America, Europe, and Asia, Monster works for everyone by connecting employers with quality job seekers at all levels and by providing personalized career advice to consumers globally. Through online media sites and services, Monster delivers vast, highly targeted audiences to advertisers. Monster Worldwide is a member of the S&P 500 index and the NASDAQ 100. To learn more about Monster’s industry-leading products and services, visit www.monster.com.
About Marcus Buckingham
Best-selling author, consultant and speaker, Marcus Buckingham is widely considered one of the world’s leading authorities on employee productivity and the practices of leading and managing. Buckingham addresses more than 250,000 people around the globe each year and is routinely lauded by such corporations as Toyota, Coca-Cola, Master Foods, Wells Fargo, Microsoft and Disney as an invaluable resource in informing, challenging, mentoring and inspiring people to find their strengths and obtain and sustain long-lasting personal success. In his role as author, independent consultant and speaker, Marcus Buckingham has been the subject of in-depth profiles in The New York Times, Fortune, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, USA Today and the Wall Street Journal. The Truth About You: Your Secret to Success follows Marcus Buckingham’s four best-selling books First, Break All the Rules (coauthored with Curt Coffman, Simon & Schuster, 1999); Now, Discover Your Strengths (coauthored with Donald O. Clifton, The Free Press, 2001); The One Thing You Need to Know (The Free Press, 2005); Go Put Your Strengths To Work (The Free Press, 2007).
About Thomas Nelson, Inc.
Founded in 1798 in Edinburgh, Scotland, Thomas Nelson is today the world’s largest inspirational publisher and one of the largest trade publishers in the U.S., releasing hundreds of new books every year in categories as broad as business, current events, history, biography, health and nutrition, spiritual growth, practical living, lifestyle, Bibles, reference, children’s books, and fiction. Thomas Nelson is home to some of the biggest names in publishing, including Max Lucado, William J. Bennett, John Maxwell, Dave Ramsey, Robin McGraw, John MacArthur, Ted Dekker, Marcus Buckingham, John Eldredge, and Donald Miller, many of whom appear regularly on multiple national best seller lists. Committed to international growth, it has offices in China, Brazil, and Mexico, as well as a Spanish language group. For more information, visit our Web site www.thomasnelson.com.
Contacts:
Steve Sylven
Monster
(978) 201-6198
steve.sylven@monster.com
Annie Godwin
Ketchum for Monster
(646) 935-4168
annie.godwin@ketchum.com
Heather D. Adams
Director of Publicity, Thomas Nelson
(615) 902-2224
hadams@thomasnelson.com
Feedburner
November 22nd, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Reference: http://scottweldon.blogspot.com/2008/11/book-review-truth-about-you.html
In answer to the above review, which I have pasted below, I should like to inform you that I have also posted my answer on my blog no 117 http://www.evaulian-thebestoftheworst.blogspot.com/
Gandhi had a point when he said he liked Christianity, it was just the Christians he couldn’t stand. I think the writer of the article has decided that his view on Christ, the Church and the Bible is the only one that really matters and expects that a Christian Publisher like Thomas Nelson should adopt that view too on what is published or not. In this rigid conception of what Christianity is all about, the fact that there are many mansions in my Father’s house, seems to have been completely overlooked.
Know thyself and you will know God, is what the Saints have echoed throughout time. Just because Marcus Buckingham does not use the vocabulary that recalls hell and brimstone but one appropriate to the readers the book is meant to assist, it does not mean the book is against Christian ethics. The review claims that the secular and humanistic tone of the book is in contrast with biblical principles- maybe I’m dumb but I fail to see how the human is to be separated from the spiritual- after all Jesus went to great lengths to take on the physical aspects of humanity- it is not us who have become like Him but He who has become like us. That this element, the birth of Christ, has become the most celebrated feast of all times, is not simply a coincidence, I don’t think.
The review states that a biblical response to one feeling strong is when one is weak. Here again one important factor has been overlooked. If as Christians we are asked to keep lying low (I doubt it God had it planned to create us all introverts), and not achieve our potentials, then that really is a slap in the face of God, who, if I remember rightly is a hard master and reaps where he has not sown. God, like the master in the parable, expects great things from us because he has given us so many talents. But how the hell do we know what these talents are unless someone like Marcus Buckingham comes along and tells us how to find them?
And find them we must, for we are not to hide our light under a bush, nor forget that after death there is also a Resurrection- which some people would like to deny us of too.
December 27th, 2008 at 9:27 am
ratuqwxftuxljcxnwell, hi admin adn people nice forum indeed. how’s life? hope it’s introduce branch