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Recommended Books
Appreciative Intelligence: Seeing the Mighty Oak in the Acorn by
Tojo Thatchenkery and Carol Metzker (San Francisco: Berrett-

Koehler), 2006.
Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize
Your Potential for Lasting Fulfi llment by Martin E. P. Seligman
(New York: Free Press), 2002.
Now Discover Your Strengths by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O.

Clifton (New York: Free Press), 2001.

Recommended Web Sites

Authentic Happiness
www.authentichappiness.sas.upenn.edu

This Web site, offered by Dr. Martin E. P. Seligman, director of the

Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, has
nearly 700,000 registered users from around the world who seek to
learn more about the fi eld of positive psychology and to gain insight
into themselves and others.

Strengths Finder
www.strengthsfi nder.com
Gallup introduced the first version of its StrengthsFinder online

assessment in the management book Now, Discover Your Strengths
in 2001. Since then, other books and the StrengthsFinder tool have
helped millions to discover their top fi ve talents.

VIA Institute of Character
http://www.viacharacter.org/

Approximately 1 million people worldwide have taken the VIA Survey

online to find out their character strengths. VIA classifi cation iden-

tifies 24 character strengths that have been found to be universal—

characteristics that define what’s best about people.