Strengths-Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow

Before your next job hunt, or you decide on a college major degree program to study, first determine your Clifton Strenghts!

By knowing that my top 5 Clifton Strenghts are "Connector, Strategist, Ideation, Input and Learner", I am able to understand my past behaviors along with where my passion lies and why that is so...

I bought a copy of Strenghts Finder 2.0 for my college aged daughter so she could understand what type of career fields and courses to study in order to experience better career and life choices.

So many people take meds for anti-depression. This could help most people understand why they are not happy!

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Good Leadership Book

As a corporate human resources director, I enjoyed StrengthsFinder 2.0. This new book is an inspiring read also. It contains a large amount of data and information especially from the Gallup scientists.

For many years, they studied more than 1 million work teams and conducted more than thousands of interviews with leaders and followers to ask exactly why they followed their leader.

Based on the authors' discoveries, the book focuses on three keys to being a great leader:

1. Knowing your strengths.
2. Getting people with the right strengths on your team.
3. Meeting the four basic needs of followers.

Combined with the research are quite a few actionable ideas that you will be able to implement immediately or at least in the near future.

As a criticism I would point out that eliminating or minimizing our weaknesses is just as important. I realize the book may disagree with this viewpoint but since entering management in 1975, I have seen many strong leaders fail because they couldn't or wouldn't control their; ego, sexual impulses, greed, etc., etc.

I hope you find this review helpful.

Michael L. Gooch, SPHR - Author of Cowboy Wisdom for Today's Business Leaders.

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Adds to the Strengths Based Series

For those familiar with the Strengths Finder materials coming out of the Gallup organization, Strengths Based Leadership adds a new dimension to the discussion. I have found it helpful in leadership training in our congregation. For several years I've thought that Gallup was publishing new books without new substance. This one takes their program a step further. The next step would be a huge leap - offer an individual profile based on the particular interactions of a person's five signature strengths. Hope they get there.

1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

Useful insight into your personality and tendencies

The strength-based leadership model is another way of looking at how you interact with people and how you learn. It didn't seem any more amazing than any of the other similar test I've taken. However, it seems to be as accurate as any other.

The book comes with a code for an online test; the site then gives you the results that tie back to the info in the book.

Interesting, especially if you haven't done tests like this before.

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Excellent for Leaders.

If you are serious about leading teams and nurturing people, you should use this book to assess yourself.

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Huge help for my career

The book was extremely useful. It not only showed me my strengths but also told me how to lead others with specific strenghts. I enjoyed it so much that I have purchased strengthsfinder for 4 of my employees as well.

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Wonderful book for anyone in a leadership position

The background research of the Gallup Organization. Tried and true principles. Is a must for those in leadership positions.

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Great Book!

The authors in this book explain leadership in many ways. They showed how you should apply your strengths and the four basic needs of those who look to you as a leader. The book identifies three ways to be a more effective leader. Knowing your strength and investing in others, getting people with the right strengths on your team, and understanding those who look to you for leadership. The book gives interviews and statistics to discuss how some of the most successful organizational leaders have become successful. Rath and Conchie's purpose for writing the book was to make one think about what leaders they look up to and why. The authors overall did a great job with organization and explanation. I recommend reading this informational book.

OSU Comp Student 2009

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Gallup's heavily researched report on leadership

This useful leadership book supports its advice, guidelines and recommendations with solid research. Gallup Inc., the well-known polling company, has done far more research on leadership and the social sciences than any author could do alone. Here, Gallup executives Tom Rath - already a best-selling author - and Barry Conchie extrapolate significant findings on leadership from their company's mountain of research. They explain what superior leadership requires and what a leader's followers seek. Their book comes with unique access codes to leadership strength assessment. In a world of mixed opinion and amorphous authority, getAbstract recommends this empirical approach to understanding leadership by way of reliable data.

The same material rehashed

If you read Now Analyze Your Strengths, keep your money and read the first two chapters in the store. It is the exact same content. Exact. There is nothing new here. If I hadn't given it as a gift to someone who didn't own a copy of the first one - I would have returned it.

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