Build Your Own Rainbow

By Mike Scally, Barrie Hopson, Mike Scally Barrie Hopson (Author)

This book consists of 40 exercises that will help readers to address such matters as personal identity, job satisfaction and how to attain it, the making of successful changes and coping with... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852527404
• ISBN13: 9781852527402
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Management Books 2000 Ltd
• Weight: 2.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.9" x 0.4" x 11.4"

Customer Reviews

Build your own Rainbow - create your personal future

The book is a personal strategic planning guide complete with a toolbox to help the individual create a desired personal future. Some 40 exercises are contained in the workbook to enable systematic enquiry into current reality for the individual rainbow-builder. Six basic questions are addressed in the book; Who am I?, Where am I now?, How satisfied am I?, What changes do I want?, How do I make changes happen?, What if my plan doesn't work out? The methodology in the workbook does have the potential to help develop multiple pathways to a personal future and tools are provided to help with making choices. However, I think that somewhat more emphasis could have been placed in the book on development of substance and character to the personal "rainbow" or vision - what does the point of arrival really look like?. There is perhaps a need for more exercises to answer the question "Why do I exist?" and connected to the development of the rainbow-builder's core purpose in life. I would have enjoyed work assignments to surface the passions that energise me and drive me from the heart. My experience in working with the workbook is that the concept of a strategic gap between current reality and desired future is not strongly articulated and emphasised.The book makes use of cut-out cards, located at the end of the book. The cards are used in several exercises. An advantage of this approach is that tools can be deployed right way - the downside is that one is left with a card storage challenge to ensure integrity of the book for subsequent use. The feature may make the book less attractive for library collections.The book is strong on useful analytical techniques that serve as mirrors to reflect interrelated dimensions of life. A good companion book is "Work Miracles - transform yourself and your organization" (S Hacker, M Wison) - the latter being strong on passionate personal leadership.