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How Full Is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life
Tom Rath, Donald O. Clifton
Rating: 4.0/5 Stars
Rank: 449
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. Copyright © Reed Business
Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
About the AuthorTom 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 organizations hottest innovation, the
Clifton StrengthsFinder, which has helped more than 1 million people
around the world discover their top five strengths.
Tom earned his
bachelors 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.
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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