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Brief Description:
For decades, Gallup scientists have researched the topic of leadership. They've surveyed a million work teams, conducted more than 50,000 in-depth interviews with leaders, and even interviewed 20,000 followers to ask what they admired in the most important leader in their life. The results of that research are unveiled in "Strengths-Based Leadership." Using Gallup's discoveries, authors Tom Rath and Barry Conchie identify three keys to being an effective leader and use firsthand accounts from highly successful leaders -- including the founder of Teach for America and the president of The Ritz-Carlton -- to show how each person's unique talents can drive their success. A new version of Gallup's popular StrengthsFinder assessment helps readers discover their own special gifts, and specific strategies show them how to lead with their top five talents. Loaded with novel research, inspiring stories, and actionable ideas, "Strengths-Based Leadership" offers a new roadmap for leading people toward a better future.
Marc Notes:
Includes card with access code to the StrengthsFinder 2.0 assessment, program, and website.
Table of Contents:
Introduction -- Part 1. Investing in Your Strengths -- Part 2. Maximizing Your Team -- Part 3. Understanding Why People Follow -- Conclusion: Leadership That Lasts Beyond a Lifetime -- Additional Resources -- Taking StrengthsFinder -- Leading With Your Strengths: A Guide to the 34 Themes -- The Research -- A. Your Strengths: The Research Behind StrengthsFinder -- B. Your Team: Gallup's Research on Work Team Engagement -- C. Why People Follow -- References.
Jacket Description/Flap:
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.
A unique access code allows you to take a new leadership version of Gallup s StrengthsFinder program. The new version of this program provides you with specific strategies for leading with your top five strengths and enables you to plot the strengths of your team based on the four domains of leadership strength revealed in the book.
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Biographical Note:
Gallup is a global analytics and advice firm that helps leaders and organizations solve their most pressing problems.
Publisher Marketing:
From Gallup: a landmark study of great leaders, teams and the reasons why people follow.
More than a decade ago, Gallup unveiled the results of a landmark 30-year research project that ignited a global conversation on the topic of strengths. Since then, more than 23 million people have taken Gallup's CliftonStrengths (formerly 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.
Gallup reveals the results of this research in
Strengths Based Leadership. Based on Gallup's 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.
Contributor Bio:Gallup
Gallup Press creates resources that help people build better lives and solve the world's most important problems.
For more than 80 years, Gallup has studied human nature and measured what drives performance, achievement and wellbeing. That research has helped leaders, organizations and communities understand how people thrive and how societies prosper.
Every Gallup Press book is grounded in Gallup's standards of integrity, trust and independence and informed by Gallup's unmatched global research. Written by Gallup experts, these books turn insight into action, helping people develop their strengths, build thriving organizations and communities, and create a better future for themselves and those they serve.
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