Have you ever thought of your key motivational values?  These are the crux of what motivates you, both professionally and personally. 

In her book, Power Surge, Margaret Seidler gives the reader key insights into the motivational values that shape our decision making. Ferreting out those values and learning their equally important opposites is one of the main lessons of this book. 

The author’s claim to the importance of the “yin and yang” of motivational values holds water.  Take for example, the motivational value of helping others.  If you don’t also give the same “air time” to its motivational polarity, helping yourself, then you are out of balance and your effectiveness is sure to suffer.  Moreover, consider these other motivational polarities: candor and tact; relationships and task; fairness and forgiveness. –Intriguing, isn’t it?   

This is where the author brings her message home; recognizing motivational values and motivational polarities in others will help you understand how you both are navigating challenges within those values. 

This book is a quick read, and the density of the information is couched within a captivating real-life narrative.  The author also includes helpful exercises that exemplify some typical scenarios.  Take a bite of Power Surge (HRD Press, 2009).  You will have an immediate turnaround time; you could read the book in the morning and put the information into practice by afternoon.