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Human Sigma: Bringing Excellence to Managing People

A new book from Gallup Press shows what happens when your company interacts with your customers

Six Sigma transformed the manufacturing side of business, bringing excellence, quality, and conformity to finished goods. Now, Human Sigma, a new book published by Gallup Press, will bring the same excellence to the greatest challenge in business today -- managing people.More ...

New Book Continues the Strengths Revolution

February 12, 2007

In the 2001 New York Times bestseller Now, Discover Your Strengths, Gallup ignited a global conversation about the idea that success is built on identifying and developing the things you do best rather than shoring up weaknesses. Now, StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Tom Rath offers a more in-depth analysis of each person's strengths. The updated assessment offers a new perspective on how talents can emerge in different ways for each individual.More ...

Gallup Publishes Long-Awaited Follow-Up to Bestselling Management Book

12: The Elements of Great Managing builds on concepts that were introduced in the widely acclaimed First, Break All the Rules

November 8, 2006

More than a decade ago, Gallup combed through its database of more than a million people to figure out what the world's best managers did differently. What emerged was the national bestseller First, Break All the Rules. Now comes the long-awaited follow up -- 12: The Elements of Great Managing. The new book profiles great managers and draws insights from a database that has grown tenfold in recent years.More ...

New Book Explores How to Revitalize America's Public Schools

Drawing on surveys and focus group discussions with principals, teachers, parents, and students, Building Engaged Schools offers a comprehensive view of what's wrong with the current approach to education in the United States.More ...

New Book Explores Why Relationships Succeed or Fail

#1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Rath shares the results of a landmark investigation

July 18, 2006

Vital Friends: The People You Can't Afford to Live Without is the first book to take a comprehensive look at the value of friendships in our society across both our private and our public lives. The results are startling, provocative, and certain to change the way we look at friendships forever.More ...

New Book Reveals Why Consumers Bond With Brands

Provocative findings in Married to the Brand draw on 60 years of Gallup research

September 16, 2005

Married to the Brand: Why Consumers Bond With Some Brands for Life, by William J. McEwen, draws on more than 60 years of research from The Gallup Organization to examine how and why we connect to the products we use and the brands we buy.More ...

New Book Reveals What Great Teachers Do Differently

Teach With Your Strengths highlights unorthodox -- and often controversial -- approaches

August 16, 2005

Teach With Your Strengths: How Great Teachers Inspire Students (Gallup Press; October 10, 2005) tells the stories of great teachers, many of whom reveal their unorthodox -- and sure to be controversial -- approaches. More than 40 years of research has provided Gallup with common themes among great teachers -- many of which result from rejecting some of the greatest educational fallacies in America todayMore ...

New Book Shows How Positivity Increases Productivity

The coauthor of the national bestseller Now, Discover Your Strengths reveals the impact of positive interactions in work and life

July 6, 2004

While the daily headlines are full of information on the staggering cost of disengaged workforces, the authors of How Full Is Your Bucket? Positive Strategies for Work and Life focus on the other side of the equation: the impact that positive interactions make on people’s lives -- both at work and at home.More ...

Gallup Launches Publishing Company

Gallup Press to offer books on business, management, education, the social sciences, religion, and current affairs

June 22, 2004

The Gallup Organization, a renowned research, training, and consulting firm, announces the formation of its own publishing unit. Gallup Press will debut in September 2004. The publisher will offer books on business, management, education, the social sciences, religion, and current affairs.More ...