- ISBN13: 9781595620255
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
From the author of the long-running # 1 bestseller StrengthsFinder 2.0 comes a landmark study of great leaders, teams, and the reasons why people follow.
Nearly a decade ago, Gallup unveiled the results of a landmark 30-year research project that ignited a global conversation on the topic of strengths. More than 3 million people have since taken Gallup’s StrengthsFinder assessment, which forms the core of several books on this topic, including the #1 international bestseller StrengthsFinder 2.0.
In recent years, while continuing to learn more about strengths, Gallup scientists have also been examining decades of data on the topic of leadership. They studied more than 1 million work teams, conducted more than 20,000 in-depth interviews with leaders, and even interviewed more than 10,000 followers around the world to ask exactly why they followed the most important leader in their life.
In Strengths Based Leadership, #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Rath and renowned leadership consultant Barry Conchie reveal the results of this research. Based on their discoveries, the book identifies three keys to being a more effective leader: knowing your strengths and investing in others’ strengths, getting people with the right strengths on your team, and understanding and meeting the four basic needs of those who look to you for leadership.
As you read Strengths Based Leadership, you’ll hear firsthand accounts from some of the most successful organizational leaders in recent history, from the founder of Teach For America to the president of The Ritz-Carlton, as they discuss how their unique strengths have driven their success. Filled with novel research and actionable ideas, Strengths Based Leadership will give you a new road map for leading people toward a better future.
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I was expecting with positive anxiety to receive the book and read it to review my impressions with other readers by now.
Unfortunately, past almost 40 days from my order, I have not received aything.
Hence, I am sorry I cannot contribute as I should and would.
Rating: 1 / 5
I purchased several copies of this book for a workshop group being run through my church. The books came in perfect condition. I was surprised at how quickly they arrived. I would purchase through Amazon again.
Rating: 5 / 5
Our office is now in the grip of Strengthsfinders mania, and it is incredibly depressing. We all have to attend mandatory meetings in which we discuss our so-called strengths, which are in reality simply dehumanizing labels.
We all had to take the survey first, of course. It was so boring that I nodded off several times in front of my computer screen. I don’t know how many questions weren’t answered because of the elapsed time limit, but when it was over I found that I have now and forever been labeled as a “Deliberative.” My peers all now believe I am a deep thinker, who likes to ruminate at length over data before giving my valuable opinions. The truth is, my opinion of this was formed very quickly, and that is that SF is nothing but the latest management fad, and that Gallup has found a money-making way to obtain personal data on me and a million others.
We have to have our strengths posted outside of our offices, and the more fad-minded ones in our company now say things to me like, “That’s something that a deliberative would say” when I talk about something as innocuous as the weather. At least I can chuckle to myself about the meaninglessness of it all when something like that happens at work.
And we can also be thankful that SF was not around at the same time as Hitler. Imagine how more effective HE could have been–which leads to another criticism. This type of business fad seems to always be divorced from any kind of ethics or morality. The bottom line is the productivity and efficiency of your business. It used to be that spirituality helped you become a better “you,” but nowadays, business and the love of ever-increasing profits trumps everything.
Don’t be fooled. This is just another money-making scam, sold to businesses with the lure of their being able to make more money.
Here is what I hope will be a valuable exercise. Close your eyes, and imagine what the whole world would be like of everybody followed SF. On the surface, everyone would be carrying SF 2.0 with them, and speak the lingo (like what’s happening at my place of work). Kind of like 3 billion Chinese carrying Mao’s Little Red Book in the 1950s and peppering their conversations with helpful “quotes.” Children would also be “directed” into school curricula and careers that fit best their personality profile. When you look at it objectively, the whole thing looks more and more like a cult designed to stifle free-will and curiousity.
Face it. StrengthsFinders is a great way for business to exert even more authoritarianism over a gullible and non-critically thinking populace.
Rating: 1 / 5
This book and the related books — Strengths Finder — I think the concept is fantastic. I want to believe by focussing on my strengths rather than my weaknesses, I can excel.
But a concrete identification of one’s strengths seems to elude description.
Something is missing in putting this over the top in terms of implementation.
Rating: 3 / 5
This is an excellent follow-on book to Strengths Finder 2.0. The concept of focusing on a person’s strengths and making the most of their talent is beneficial to every organization and family in the world. Learn these valuable lessons and apply them to improve your life!
Rating: 5 / 5