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How Full Is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life

Tom Rath, Donald O. Clifton

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In this brief but significant book, the authors, a grandfather-grandson team, explore how using positive psychology in everyday interactions can dramatically change our lives.

Clifton (coauthor of Now, Discover Your Strengths) and Rath suggest that we all have a bucket within us that needs to be filled with positive experiences, such as recognition or praise.

When we're negative toward others, we use a dipper to remove from their buckets and diminish their positive outlook.

When we treat others in a positive manner, we fill not only their buckets but ours as well. The authors illustrate how this principle works in the areas of business and management, marriage and other personal relationships and in parenting through studies covering a 40-year span, many in association with the Gallup Poll.

While acknowledging that most lives have their share of misfortune, the authors also make clear that how misfortune affects individuals depends largely on their level of positive energy and confidence.

The authors also underscore that our human interactions provide most of the joys or disappointments we receive from life.

The book comes with a unique access code to www.bucketbook.com, which offers a positive impact assessment and drop-shaped note cards that can be used to give praise and recognition to others.
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About the Author

Tom Rath is co-author of the #1 New York Times and #1 BusinessWeek bestseller How Full Is Your Bucket? — a book that draws on decades of research to explore the differences between leading an enthusiastic life and a miserable one. His book is receiving acclaim worldwide, and appears regularly on the major bestseller lists. At Gallup, Tom is the Global Practice Leader for the organization’s hottest innovation, the Clifton StrengthsFinder, which has helped more than 1 million people around the world discover their top five strengths.

Tom earned his bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He is currently pursuing a graduate degree at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Donald O.Clifton, Ph.D. (1924-2003), was cited by the American Psychological Association as the Father of Strengths Psychology and the Grandfather of Positive Psychology.

He was a chairman of Gallup, Inc., and he invented the Clifton StrengthsFinder, an assessment that has helped more than 1 million people around the world discover their talents.

He coauthored several books, including the bestseller Now, Discover Your Strengths.

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Editorials

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How Full Is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life
Tom Rath, Donald O. Clifton
 USA Today, August 30, 2004
"For all the veneer of easygoing pleasantry, this is serious business."
 Entrepreneur magazine, September 2004
"50 years of research . . . reveal how positive reinforcement can powerfully boost productivity, satisfaction, and stability in all kinds of organizations."
 Selling Power magazine, September, 2004
"Tangible, actionable steps to help turn your workplace into a bustling bastion of positivity and productivity."




Customer Reviews

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How Full Is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life
Tom Rath, Donald O. Clifton
 Over flowing buckets
(West Chicago, IL United States) July 24, 2004 - 5.0/5 stars
How Full is Your Bucket? is a quick, but worthwhile read. The books subtitle really says it all, positive strategies for Work and Life. The basic premise of the book is that each of us has as an invisible bucket. It... read full review
 Good ideas
(Boston, MA) March 25, 2005 - 4.0/5 stars
Nice book if you are just beginning your plight into the self-help arena. Content is based on the old positive thinking paradigm which has been revised and optimized in Optimal Thinking: How to be Your Best Self. Read both... read full review
 Old ideas repackaged in an easy read
(New Jersey, USA) December 2, 2004 - 3.0/5 stars
I have read this advice in about 100 other self help books but not in this format. Basically the author says that if you lead a constructive life, you will get returns. I agree with the concept of treating others... read full review




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