Go Put Your Strengths to Work
6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance
From Introduction
Lead This Movement
THE FIRST STAGE: HOW TO LABEL
It's hard to trace the source of the strengths movement.
Some will identify Peter Drucker, citing his seminal 1966 book, The Effective Executive, in which he wrote: "The effective executive builds on strengths -- their own strengths, the strengths of superiors, colleagues, subordinates; and on the strengths of the situation."
Some will cite a 1987 article that launched a new discipline called Appreciative Inquiry, whose basic premise, according to its founder, David Cooperrider, was "to build organizations around what works rather than fix what doesn't."
Some will make reference to Dr. Martin Seligman's 1999 speech after becoming president of the American Psychological Association. "The most important thing we learned was that psychology was half-baked, literally half-baked," he said. "We've baked the part about mental illness, about repair of damage. The other side's unbaked, ... read full excerpt from Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance ebook
