Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Resilience at Work
Salvatore R. Maddi · 2005
78/100
👍 Worth It
Maddi's hardiness research is the real thing — decades of peer-reviewed work on AT&T employees under organizational upheaval, not armchair theory — and the three-attitude framework of commitment, control, and challenge gives readers something concrete to train. The writing leans clinical, which slows general readers, but the substance is unusually well-grounded for this category.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety96
Substance / usefulness82
Craft & writing65
Originality75
Evidence & accuracy80
Hype vs delivers78
Age-fit85
👁 Human-eye gut-check75
Penny’s verdict78
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