Talent: Psychologists Personality Test Elite People - Couverture souple

Saville BA, Prof. Peter; Hopton, Tom

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0956287506 ISBN 13 : 9780956287502

Editeur : Saville Consulting Group Ltd, 2009

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

TALENT is the new book from Professor Peter Saville and Tom Hopton. In it successful people share their personal results from a scientifically-established personality test, the Saville Consulting Wave®. They also give their views on the results and their careers, providing a rare insight into their personalities.

Individuals featured in Talent are:

STAN "THE MAN" BOWLES: The Ultimate Soccer Maverick -
IAN WOOSNAM OBE: World No.1 Golfer and Winning Ryder Cup Captain -
AJAZ AHMED: Entrepreneur, Founder of the £9 Billion Company Freeserve -
GEORGE COHEN MBE: 1966 Soccer World Cup Winner -
RONALD STOUFFER: Co-Winner Nobel Peace Prize, Global Warming -
SONIA O'SULLIVAN: World Champion Athlete -
CARY COOPER CBE: Guru on Stress in the Workplace -
RON "CHOPPER" HARRIS: Soccer's Hard Man -
KATHRYN McCUSKER: Australian Opera Star -
MARK RAMPRAKASH: International Cricketer, Strictly Come Dancing Champion -
RAY WILKINS MBE: English International, Chelsea, Manchester United, Rangers and AC Milan Footballer -
REBECCA HOSSACK: Art Entrepreneur -
GARETH EDWARDS CBE: Voted The Greatest Rugby Player of All Time -
BOB WILSON OBE: Soccer Legend, BBC TV Personality -
MEREDITH BELBIN: The Father of Effective Workplace Teams -
JEREMY SNAPE: International Cricketer, Elite Performance Psychologist -

Each individual's story is presented in a separate chapter which considers their talents and positive aspects of their personality. Talent aims to better understand the aspects of personality which contribute to success.

Proceeds from the sale of the book are going to the Willow Foundation, a unique national charity which was founded by Bob and Megs Wilson and organizes special days for seriously ill 16-40 year olds.

Biographie de l'auteur

Professor Peter Saville BA, MPhil, PhD, FBPsS, C.Psychol, FRSA was Chief Psychologist at the Test Division of the National Foundation for Educational Research by the age of 27. He was Founder and Chairman of SHL and created the Occupational Personality Questionnaire®, which was seen as the foremost personality assessment for many years. In 2001 Peter was voted one of Britain's top ten psychologists, the only industrial psychologist listed. In 1998 he was nominated as one of the UK's top entrepreneurs. His portrait hung in the National Gallery in London, after he was awarded the British Psychological Society Centenary Award for Distinguished Contributions to Professional Psychology. He has published over 200 papers, books, questionnaires and keynote speeches, as well as having been interviewed on radio and television around the world. Peter has consulted with many of the FTSE and Fortune 100 companies, as well as public bodies and the United Nations. Now International Chairman at Saville Consulting and visiting professor at Kingston Business School, he continues to research valid and improved ways to measure workplace performance.

Tom Hopton BA Oxon is a consultant at Saville Consulting who graduated from Oxford University as an Experimental Psychologist. Working in the research and development of various psychometric instruments, he recently co-ordinated a major validation study of personality questionnaires. A swimmer once ranked second in the British Isles as a teenager, Tom is interested in the psychology of high performance and is currently researching the personality, talents and motivations of elite sportspeople, entrepreneurs and other well-known individuals.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Saville Consulting Group Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0956287506
• ISBN 13: 9780956287502
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible