Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
How to Make a Habit of Success
Bernard Haldane · 2013
65/100
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Bernard Haldane was doing strengths-based career thinking before it had a name, and his Success Factor Analysis—identify what you have genuinely done well and build from there—still cuts against the grain of most resume-polishing advice in a useful way. The 2013 reprint is a straight reproduction of the mid-century original, so the voice and examples feel dated, but the underlying methodology holds. Readers who want the intellectual root of what Gallup and others later packaged will find it here.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety77
Substance / usefulness67
Craft & writing62
Originality72
Evidence & accuracy77
Hype vs delivers71
Age-fit70
👁 Human-eye gut-check62
Penny’s verdict65
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