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 The Coming Jobs War

The Coming Jobs War

"What everyone in the world wants is a good job." In a provocative book for business and government leaders, Gallup Chairman Jim Clifton describes how this undeniable fact will affect all leadership decisions as countries wage war to produce the best jobs.
 Breaking the Fear Barrier

Breaking the Fear Barrier

A company's worst enemy is not always the competition. Sometimes it's the fear that lives within its own walls. By learning from the real-world lessons in this book, leaders, managers, and employees can overcome the barriers that plague their company.
 Strengths Based Selling

Strengths Based Selling

Tony Rutigliano and Brian Brim

Strengths Based Selling explains sales talent and how to identify and maximize it. Readers also receive a code to take the world-renowned Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment, which reveals each person's unique talents and strengths.
 Decade of Change

Decade of Change

Decade of Change presents strategies for managing during uncertain times. Featuring interviews with leaders who steered their organizations through various crises, the book is more than a look backward at the turbulent 2000s -- it is a roadmap for what lies ahead.
 <em>Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements</em>

Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements

Tom Rath and Jim Harter

This New York Times bestseller -- the result of Gallup's comprehensive study of people in more than 150 countries -- reveals five universal, interconnected elements that shape our lives: Career Wellbeing, Social Wellbeing, Financial Wellbeing, Physical Wellbeing, and Community Wellbeing.
 <em>How Full Is Your Bucket?</em>

How Full Is Your Bucket?

Tom Rath and Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D.

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.
 <em>Power of 2</em>

Power of 2

Rodd Wagner and Gale Muller

Based on Gallup's groundbreaking research, Power of 2 details the eight elements that prepare partners to succeed in their most important endeavors. Rodd Wagner, coauthor of the bestseller 12: The Elements of Great Managing, and Gallup World Poll leader Gale Muller, Ph.D., share the science and the secrets of successful collaboration.
 <em>Strengths Based Leadership</em>

Strengths Based Leadership

Tom Rath and Barry Conchie

Gallup's Strengths Based Leadership reveals key findings about leadership, offers readers access to a leadership-specific assessment to help them lead with their top five strengths, and presents the engaging stories of some truly successful leaders of our time. It offers a new roadmap for great leadership and building more effective organizations and workgroups.
 <em>Human Sigma: Managing the Employee-Customer Encounter</em>

Human Sigma: Managing the Employee-Customer Encounter

John H. Fleming, Ph.D., and Jim Asplund

Six Sigma changed the face of manufacturing quality, creating excellence by reducing variance in finished goods, revolutionizing businesses, and boosting profits. Now, Human Sigma is poised to do the same for sales and service organizations.
 <i>The Best of the Gallup Management Journal</i>

The Best of the Gallup Management Journal

Since 2001, the Gallup Management Journal has provided leaders with essential insights into managing the human side of their businesses — their employees and customers. This book features the highlights of the first seven years of the GMJ: more than 50 thought-provoking articles with actionable ideas, grounded in decades of Gallup management research.
 <em>StrengthsFinder 2.0</em>

StrengthsFinder 2.0

Tom Rath

Gallup introduced the first version of its online assessment, StrengthsFinder, in the 2001 bestseller Now, Discover Your Strengths. StrengthsFinder 2.0 unveils the new and improved version of this popular assessment and language of 34 themes, as well as hundreds of strategies for applying your strengths.
 <em>12: The Elements of Great Managing</em>

12: The Elements of Great Managing

Rodd Wagner and James K. Harter, Ph.D.

The long-awaited sequel to the bestseller First, Break All the Rules, 12 follows great managers as they successfully face a host of challenges in settings around the world. Written for managers and employees of companies large and small, 12 explains what every company must know about creating and sustaining employee engagement.
 <em>Vital Friends: The People You Can't Afford to Live Without</em>

Vital Friends: The People You Can't Afford to Live Without

Tom Rath

Vital Friends challenges long-held assumptions people have about their relationships. And its landmark discovery -– that people who have a "best friend at work" are seven times as likely to be engaged in their job -– is sure to rattle the structure of organizations around the world.
 <em>Married to the Brand: Why Consumers Bond With Some Brands for Life</em>

Married to the Brand: Why Consumers Bond With Some Brands for Life

William J. McEwen, Ph.D.

Many marketers are great at wooing a "first date" with consumers, yet lousy at creating a lasting marriage between buyer and brand. Married to the Brand tells the story of what makes profitable brand relationships work -- through the eyes of the consumer, not the marketer.
 <em>Animals, Inc.: A Business Parable for the 21<sup>st</sup> Century</em>

Animals, Inc.: A Business Parable for the 21st Century

Kenneth A. Tucker and Vandana Allman

A hilarious parady of corporate life, with very serious lessons about the best -- and worst -- ways to manage a workforce.
 <em>Follow This Path: How the World's Greatest Organizations Drive Growth by Unleashing Human Potential</em>

Follow This Path: How the World's Greatest Organizations Drive Growth by Unleashing Human Potential

Curt Coffman and Gabriel Gonzalez-Molina, Ph.D.

Follow This Path teaches organizational leaders how best to manage the emotions of employees and customers to achieve sustainable growth and profits amid extreme competition.
 <em>Discover Your Sales Strengths: How the World's Greatest Salespeople Develop Winning Careers</em>

Discover Your Sales Strengths: How the World's Greatest Salespeople Develop Winning Careers

Benson Smith and Tony Rutigliano

Discover Your Sales Strengths teaches salespeople to focus on their personal talents and strengths, then guides them to transform those assets into superior sales skills -- and successful careers. Includes StrengthsFinder.
 <em>Now, Discover Your Strengths</em>

Now, Discover Your Strengths

Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton, Ph.D.

Identify your talents, build them into strengths, and enjoy consistent, near-perfect performance. Now, Discover Your Strengths introduces 34 talent themes and reveals how they can best be translated into personal and career success. Includes StrengthsFinder.
 <em>First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently</em>

First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman

The world's best managers reveal revolutionary insights about successful managerial behavior. Learn how great managers turn talent into performance and build a great company, one employee and one workgroup at a time.