Rothacker Reviews

Inside Connection

"How can I be useful. Of what service can I be. There is something inside me. What can it be?"  - Vincent Van Gogh   By way of Dick Richards .

When one discovers what this something is, the whole world cannot help but to see.  This is most visible in the writings of our fellow bloggers.  Their passions radiate from our computer screens.

I began this post with the intent of exploring my recent absence from writing here.  I believe it was a lack of connection from inside of me to my day job.  The bridge was washed out.  Gone.  Although work for me has been in a downward spiral for the last five years it didn't loom so large of an obstacle that it blocked out everything else.

My work situation has changed however, and I feel the roadways beginning to mend.

How beautiful it is when these connections run vibrant and strong - and are most visible in others.

Strengths Revolution

Do you remember that TV slogan ?  "When E. F. Hutton talks, people listen."  Well I felt the same way this morning when I opened up an e-mail advertising brief from Marcus Buckingham.   Marcus has huge credibility following his career at the Gallup Organization and his run of top selling business books.  I do not mind being marketed to from MB.

Marcus' mission is to bring a strengths revolution to the world of business.  This simply means that there needs to be more of us utilizing our strengths at work.  If one needs to hitch their wagon up to a revolution, and I do believe that all of us do at one time in our lives, the strengths revolution is the way to go.

Marcus' latest effort is a short film titled, Trombone Player Wanted.   The film is actually a collection of six, fifteen minute DVD films designed to help us put our strengths to work.

In his last book, The One Thing You Need to Know, MB states that he is not a very good manager.  Here is a cat that has arguably written the best book on management ever stating that he is not a good manager.  But that is precisely where the beauty lies in searching out our strengths.  And, although I haven't seen the film, I believe that it will help us to discover our strengths and put them to work.