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How did you feel after your last interaction with another person?
Did that person -- your spouse, best friend, coworker, or even a stranger -- "fill your bucket" by making you feel more positive? Or did that person "dip from your bucket," leaving you more negative than before?
The #1 New York Times and #1 BusinessWeek bestseller, How Full Is Your Bucket? reveals how even the briefest interactions affect your relationships, productivity, health, and longevity.
Organized around a simple metaphor of a dipper and a bucket, and grounded in 50 years of research, this book will show you how to greatly increase the positive moments in your work and your life -- while reducing the negative.
Filled with discoveries, powerful strategies, and engaging stories, How Full Is Your Bucket? is sure to inspire lasting changes and has all the makings of a timeless classic. (edited by author) | | | Features: | |
• ISBN13: 9781595620033
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| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Tom Rath | | Hardcover:
| 128 pages | | Publisher:
| Gallup Press | | Publication Date:
| August 10, 2004 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1595620036 | | Package Length:
| 8.5 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.6 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.9 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.75 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 126 reviews |
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Every manager should read this bookSep 06, 2010
Like parents who focus on the F's on a report card rather than the A's, many managers focus on critiquing weaknesses rather than developing strengths. But as "How Full is Your Bucket?" points out, our emotional buckets are filled by positive encounters and drained by negative ones.
Among the authors' key points:
* The Number One reason people leave their jobs is they don't feel appreciated.
* Praise must be meaningful and specific.
* Recognition is most appreciated and effective when it is individualized, specific, and deserved.
* We are at our best when our buckets are full, and at our worst when they are empty.
* Every interaction is an opportunity to fill someone's bucket -- or drain it.
* When we fill other people's buckets, we simultaneously fill our own.
Mind you, it's not possible to simply offer groundless praise. Every worker has room for improvement. But constructive feedback about what needs fixing is more effective when it's bracketed by genuine compliments and praise for strong points. Employees, like students, and writers, need to build on their strengths in addition to improving their weaknesses.
Individualization is important, because while one worker may appreciate a plaque to hang on the wall, another might prefer some extra time off to spend with family. To aid in this, the book includes a "Bucket Filling Interview," which can help managers learn about what really motivates each employee.
The only drawback to this book -- although some might call it a strength -- is its brevity. I suspect there is much more to say on the subject of positive reinforcement in the workplace.
How Full is Your Bucket? will not only help managers encourage employees, it will help anyone see where they've been missing opportunities to fill other people's buckets.
 Important ConceptAug 18, 2010
If we could all live our lives with this concept in mind, filling each other's bucket, this would be a wonderful world.
 Nice but short on substanceJul 28, 2010
Well it is hard to write something negative about a gook that tells you to be positive so I will keep this short and sweet. Be nice, be positive, be helpful and that is the message of the book. All good things but the examples and content are really thin. You will be wanting some researched important example of a point and he will say " I knew a wife who talked nice to her husband and their marriage improved". So it's OK here but don't expect to be wowed.
 $3 worth of knowledgeJul 28, 2010
This book has some very good points. I'm only giving it three stars because there are only about 80 pages worth of reading material. Most of the pages have a lot of empty space and the font is rather large. All in all it took me seriously maybe 20-30 minutes to read and I don't read that fast.
The points are pretty obvious but we all need the obvious pointed out once in a while. If I had known the content was like this I would have never paid $13.57 for it. $3-$6 maybe. At best.
The three stars are simply because it helped me in a 3 star kind of way.
How full is your bucket?Jul 15, 2010
Needed this book for an E-train course and I thought it was going to be boring
but as I read it, it broadened my views on life, issues and self esteem. It's a must read for everyone especially those in management.
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