Deep Strengths

[Back cover copy]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. Price Pritchett, world-renowned expert on corporate culture and organizational change, reveals how a company's performance is heavily influenced by 10 inner qualities which organizations typically ignore or leave to chance. Backed by the latest research, Pritchett explores these attributes in depth, providing a model for "strength training" that can dramatically improve the performance of any organization. [flap copy]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 ten 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 Pritchett, one of the world's top thinkers on corporate culture, mergers, and organizational change, shows how these attributes drive operating effectiveness. He then provides a new model and approach for "strength training" that will enhance leadership effectiveness, improve employee performance, plus develop a culture psychologically suited for today's knowledge workers and our world of relentless change. The process for "strength training" presented in Deep Strengths introduces you to the mighty influence of your firm's corporate psyche and equips you with a solid methodology for developing those inner strengths that lead to high performance.Pritchett, Price is the author of 'Deep Strengths', published 2007 under ISBN 9780071485463 and ISBN 0071485465.