Deep Strengths: Getting to the Heart of High Performance - Hardcover

Pritchett, Price

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0071485465 ISBN 13: 9780071485463

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2007

Synopsis

Deep strengths are those attributes that individuals and organizations depend on to carry them through the most difficult periods. They also are the psychological assets needed in today's corporate arena to make the most of opportunities and deal effectively with high-velocity change. Price Pritchett's Deep Strengths draws on his latest research, including data from more than 300 CEOs, to show how an organization's power comes from 10 inner forces that underlie its ability to produce results. These essential qualities are

* Resilience * Confidence * Energy Level * Creativity & Innovation * Can-Do Attitude * Ambition * Hope * Happiness * Competitive Spirit * Staying Power

As an advisor to executives, boards of directors, and senior managers for more than three decades, Pritchett has developed an intimate understanding of the necessary qualities for success, and has become one of the world's top thinkers on corporate culture, mergers, and organizational change. In this landmark work, he shows how the ten deep strengths found in every successful companycombine to drive organizational effectiveness.

Pritchett then provides a new model and approach for “strength training” that you can put to work in your company. As you put this training into action, you will find ways for your company to enhance leadership effectiveness, improve employee performance, and develop an organizational culture that is psychologically primed for the escalating pace of our changing business world.

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From the Back Cover:

Develop the Inner Strengths that Lead to High Performance

In every successful company, there are Deep Strengths-characteristics that drive its culture, motivate its people, and steer its strategy to greater innovation and productivity. If you want to enhance leadership, improve employee performance, and develop a culture of winning in your organization, you need to encourage these strengths at every level.

Drawing on exclusive research into these qualities that ensure success, Price Pritchett explores the foundation of high performance, introducing techniques you can use to retool behavior and cultivate a culture of optimal performance and productivity.

Synopsis:

What do 300 CEOs know? The strengths your organization must use for breakthrough growth. In his latest work, "Hard Optimism', thought leader Price Pritchett showed how to develop the attitude of a winner by incorporating resilience and innovation throughout a company. "Deep Strengths" argues that an organization's true power is derived from 10 qualities that reflect its ability to be performance driven. Drawing on exclusive research with contributions from more than 300 CEOs, Pritchett explores the foundation of high performance, introducing techniques you as a manager can use to retool your behavior and cultivate a high-performance culture.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0071485465
• ISBN 13: 9780071485463
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 144