Posted on February 26th, 2010, by Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D.
Buckingham, Marcus & Donald O. Clifton. Now, Discover Your Strengths. I cannot recommend this book enough and even though it’s not a time/paper management book per se, it is because of their research-based philosophy that we need to spend our time, energy, efforts, and lives doing what we do best and helping those around us [...]
Tags: book review, Donald O. Clifton, Marcus Buckingham, strenghts, strength
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Posted on January 6th, 2010, by Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D.
Buckingham, Marcus. GO Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance.. Marcus Buckingham is the face of the strengths movement. His earlier books that he wrote while with the Gallup Organization helped propel him to rock star status. Plus, he’s a fabulous speaker and communicator and thinker (and yes, he’s handsome, [...]
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Posted on December 30th, 2009, by Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D.
Rath, Tom. StrengthsFinder 2.0. After Marcus Buckingham left the Gallup Organization to start his own company (and write his own book….GO Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance), then it was important for Gallup to publish a new book on the Strengths work that they have continued to do. And [...]
Tags: book review, Gallup Organization, strength, StrengthsFinder, Tom Rath
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Posted on November 14th, 2008, by Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D.
I think I will expand this post for an upcoming Just Whelmed email, because the quote fits in with what I’ve been writing about lately. “Why do so many…settle for so little? I don’t understand why they’re not greedy for what’s inside them.” ~Jack Gilbert This is not meant to be a depressing post, I [...]
Tags: acknowledgement, Jack Gilbert, mediocrity, settle, strength, talent
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