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Books

  • Emotional Intelligence 2.0, Travis Bradberry & Jean Greaves
    The book contains proven strategies from a decade-long effort to accurately measure and increase emotional intelligence. Trusted by upper-echelon leaders inside companies worldwide, these strategies will enable you to capitalize on the skills responsible for 58% of performance in all types of jobs.
  • StrengthsFinder 2.0, Tom Rath
    In its latest national bestseller, StrengthsFinder 2.0, Gallup unveils the new and improved version of its popular assessment, language of 34 themes, and much more.
  • Now, Discover Your Strengths, Marcus Buckingham
    Focusing on enhancing people's strengths rather than eliminating their weaknesses, the author fully describes 34 positive personality themes and explains how to build a "strengths-based organization" by capitalizing on the fact that such traits are already present among those within it. (This book includes a web-based interactive component that allows readers to complete a Gallup Organization questionnaire and instantly discover their own top-five in born talents.)
  • Go, Put Your Strengths to Work, Marcus Buckingham
    Buckingham, an authority on workplace issues, provides a road map for managers to learn for themselves and then teach their employees how to approach their work by emphasizing their strengths rather than weaknesses.
  • A Whole New Mind: Why Right Brainers Will Rule the Future, Daniel Pink
    Drawing on research from around the advanced world, the author outlines the six fundamentally human abilities that are essential for professional success and personal fulfillment—and reveals how to master them.
  • Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman
    This book takes a leap forward with the concept of emotional intelligence and its link to leading and building emotionally intelligent organizations. Emotionally intelligent leaders bring organizational success to the fore because they inspire, motivate and foster commitment in people.
  • Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Malcolm Gladwell
    Blink explores how we think without thinking, about choices that seem to be made in an instant, and why some people are brilliant decision makers while others consistently stumble into error. The book changes the way you understand every decision you make through the power of gut reactions.
  • Outliers, The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell
    Why do some people succeed, living remarkably productive and impactful lives, while so many more never reach their full potential? Gladwell builds a convincing case for how successful people rise on the tide of advantages, "some deserved, some not, some earned, some just plain lucky."

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