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| Title: | How Full is Your Bucket | ||||
| Author: | Tom Rath has worked for Gallup for over 12 years (an organization world renowned for “Gallup Polls”) ,he co authored this book with Donald O Clifton | ||||
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| What the book is about: | |||||
| The Bucket in the title is our personal emotional bucket which can be filled with either positive or negative inputs. Tom uses the polls of over 5 million contributors, to focus on the benefits of positive inputs to our lives.
The principles in this book can be used to enrich our individual lives or even to create a work atmosphere where the team are more engaged in the business. Using polls from such diverse groups as school children and nuns he shows how positive feedback at the right level can help people prosper and actually live longer. We are told that we should concentrate on what is right with people instead of what is wrong. |
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| Would I buy this book: |
YES |
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| A short easy to read book that provides a simple message. | |||||
| What I liked about this book: | |||||
| I liked the fact that false praise is seen to have more of a negative effect than a straight negative comment. I really resonated with the idea that we are very specific when we provide criticism but pretty general when it comes to praise.I found it interesting the high percentage of people surveyed that would concentrate on their child’s lowest school grade instead of its highest. | |||||
| What I thought could have been improved in this book: | |||||
| As an audio book this lasts around 45 minutes and with such a great resource I wish it could have gone on a little longer. | |||||
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| Where available: | |||||
| http://www.fishpond.co.nz/ | |||||
| www.thenile.co.nz | |||||
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