Al built on his fine work in The Survivor Personality with The Resiliency Advantage. This shows how people can develop resiliency of overcome setbacks and achieve peak performance.
You can find out more about Al’s work here.
There are many books that have influenced the strengths approach. This section of the site shares some of these. We will continue to add to the strengths library, so please keep coming back …
August 12th, 2010
Al Siebert. The Survivor Personality
What can we learn from survivors?
Al Siebert identifies the characteristics of people who have overcome tremendous setbacks. Many of the findings in The Survivor Personality, including the concept of Personal Radar, can be applied to our personal and professional lives.
You can find out more about Al’s work here.
August 11th, 2010
Alex Linley, Janet Willars and Robert Biswas-Diener. The Strengths Book
This is a superb book that pulls together much of the work done by The Centre for Applied Positive Psychology (CAPP) …
Packed with practical ideas, it provides many tools that readers can use to build on their strengths. The second part of the book provides a guide to Sixty Strengths. This section will become a valued reference for people who want to revisit their talents.
August 10th, 2010
Bernard Haldane. Career Satisfaction and Success
Bernard Haldane is recognised as one of the giants of the strengths philosophy – an approach he was already using in the 1940s. His legacy lives on through his thought leadership, his protégés and the continuing work with ‘Dependable Strengths’.
Bernard grew up in England and trained to be a doctor. He moved to New York in 1946, but found that his medical qualifications did not meet US standards. Choosing to go another route, he became an editor at the New York Journal of Commerce. While the job market was being flooded by veterans returning from the war, it became apparent that organisations did not know how to employ people’s talents. Veterans were used to ‘war jobs’, many of which did not exist in the labour market.
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August 11th, 2010
Carl Honore. In Praise of Slow
We live in a world where, as one person put it:
Instant gratification is not quick enough.
Carl finally came to his senses one night when reading to his child from the One Minute Bed-Time Stories. Asked to repeat the story, he became irritated, and wondered if he should order Volume 2 of the series.
Perhaps a new set of stories would satisfy his child?
