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|  | Authors: Tom Rath, Barry Conchie
Publisher: Gallup Press
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Rating:  49 reviews
Sales Rank: 790
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 216
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.8 x 1.1
ISBN: 1595620257
Dewey Decimal Number: 303.34
EAN: 9781595620255
ASIN: 1595620257
Publication Date: January 6, 2009
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Quick read providing good insights June 7, 2009
Bill M. (Champaign, IL USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Unlike many books of this genre, this title did not stretch a simple idea that could be communicated concisely into hundreds of pages. Instead, it gets to the point (which is a good one), and then it works through four brief examples.
The included personalized strengths profile and reports [...] are more than worth the price of the book.
 Talent and Leadership May 7, 2009
Just an Opinion (Kalamazoo, MI USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book brought together the most critical factors of running a business, appplying talents to lead an organization. Great science supporting what is considered a soft subject.
Leadership Team Balance May 6, 2009
David M. Taylor (Calgary, Canada)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I am a huge fan of the Gallup organization's StrengthsFinder tool and research.
I found this book to be particularly helpful when doing a strengths analysis of a leadership team. It clearly identifies individual leadership strength themes and when these themes are combined for a leadership team, it clearly identifies Domain strength areas and Domain areas where the team needs some outside help.
I would have liked to see a little more detail in "Part Three: Why People Follow" and more detail around how to relate this back to the 4 Leadership Strength Domains.
David Taylor
www.strength-zone.com
`Strengths' is the new currency April 26, 2009
Bill Milnor (Denver, Colorado)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
`Strengths' is the new currency. The Gallup group began isolating and understanding people from the talent perspective over a decade ago. Names like Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton and Tom Rath have brought to light a powerful medium for understanding what excites us and these insights make better work places and happier lives. For business it is about productivity and employee engagement; for employees it is about feeling good about your choice in where and what you do almost every day. Both are big! Strengths Based Leadership by Tom Rath and Barry Conchie takes strengths application to the next level: Leadership and for me, inherently part of this is great management. This work further develops the strengths of teams into four leadership domains. They are: Executing, Influencing, Relationship Building and Strategic Thinking. I found this distilling of a team's strengths into these domains a way to conceptually simplify very important areas of focus and understand where each member might excel in their performance. This seemed especially relevant to the achievement of an organization's strategic plan. Knowing which key individuals bring the most energy to the different aspects of moving an organization forward is not only critical to success, but even more so to keeping a competitive edge.
The second theme in this work is identifying the "Followers Four Basic Needs": Trust, Compassion, Stability and Hope. This is also a compelling framework for supporting a work environment that helps people act at their best.
This book will be very helpful if you are interested in strength based applications and not deficit or weakness improvement approaches. I suggest some foundation in strengths based work before utilizing this book, like Strengths Finder 2.0 and Now Discover Your Strengths, to get greater depth on its offering.
 A worthwhile tool April 24, 2009
Betsy N. Lopez (California)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is less of a book and more of a tool to use in conjunction with the "strengthFinder". Although this is not what I expected it introduced me to the tool and I found that to be really helpful. The content in this book is ok, but the personal reports you get from taking the strengthfinder are great.
In any case I do think this book helps better understand your reports and gives you great live examples of the strengths successful people honed.
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