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

The description says that you are supposed to get the code to take the strength finder assessment with the book and that the retailer will send it to you. This is not the case. After searching through the other product comments from other buyers, it seems as though I just wasted my money. I need the book for a college class, so unfortunately I will be repurchasing a hard copy of the book. @Amazon - how do I get my money back and why are you allowing shady suppliers to sell on your site?

Buy the book from the actual website! Alternatively, if you do get it from Amazon realize that the whopping 32 dollar kindle ebook price tag is useless because you do not get the access code to save your money and buy it new. Honestly, if they are going to upcharge you for an ebook and not give the access code, you might as well buy a used book for $0.94 because that is all the book is worth without access to the website to actually ​take the quiz needed for the book!

Before I get into the review, a word of advice to all potential buyers: Unless you have already taken a StrengthsFinder quiz and know your dominant themes, you must buy this book new. A new book comes with an exclusive one-time access code in the back that unlocks an online survey. Your unique survey results will then calculate what your strengths are, so that you can get the most value out of Strengths Based Leadership.Research demonstrates that people tend not to utilize their natural talents, leading to frustration. Even more, most people also tend not the scale their strengths, but instead focus on scrutinizing their weaknesses. This book makes the case that the best leaders are not, in fact, well-rounded, but maximize their innate gifts with an acute awareness of who they are and the needs of those they lead. This book provides a general framework for effective leadership and helps you identify what your strengths are.Strengths Based Leadership is the “executive version” of the acclaimed StrengthsFinder 2.0. Both books use the same formula to compute your strengths: by taking a 177-question online assessment. Your “grade” on this test computes your top five themes which you can then read about amongst the 34 themes described in this book.What Strengths Based Leadership does very well is introduce you to the real leader in you and not the version of a leader formed in the image of popular culture. This book provides tailored, specific and actionable advice on how you can lead in all areas of life. Ultimately, Strengths Based Leadership will likely be a go-to resource well into the future.

Alas, I returned the Kindle version for a full refund because the promised access code for evaluation was NOT included (and not sent in a separate email), and attempts to contact the publisher produced absolutely no response. Silence. It's too bad, because the Clifton Strengths program is amazing. These issues need to be immediately.

How do I get the personal access code for the strength finder assessment after having purchased the kindle version? The book states this will be provided by he retailer? Please advise.

I'll be honest... I really don't remember much at all about what's in this book. The main takeaway I remember is to try and play to people's strengths, rather than trying to shore up their weaknesses. Generally speaking people prefer to play to their strengths anyway, so this results in better output and happier people.What I do remember thoroughly is the StrengthsFinder assessment, and comparing my results to my co-workers. I found that to be highly interesting, and fairly useful for getting a relatively quick handle on what sort of personality they all had. Of course it's not as good as working closely with them for months/years, but it's a great way to get in the right ballpark relatively quickly.I will say that I'm not convinced the assessment is actually all *that* reliable/repeatable. I took it twice about 3 months apart, and of my top 5 strengths, 2 of the original 5 were gone completely and another was downgraded significantly. The ones I related to most strongly were still present, so I don't think it's total garbage, but it's not perfect.Additionally, the test included with the book does not include any sort of ranking beyond the top 5, and it does not provide any measure of relative "magnitude" of the top 5 strengths against each other. By that I mean, are your top-5 strengths all approximately equally representative of you, or do 1 or 2 of them show through far more strongly than the others? The test does not provide this sort of information. You can have 2 people with the same exact top 5 lists (in the same order), but significantly different personalities. Consequently you kinda have to just start with the #1 strength, and slowly try to build the other 4 into your interactions, until you figure out just how strongly each of them shows through.If you like the idea of measuring people's strengths, and trying to play to people's strengths (instead of trying to shore up their weaknesses), you'll probably get value out of this. If you find "personality assessment tests" to be complete and utter hokum, you're less likely to be a fan.

Using this with my student team at a university. Knowing their Strengths has professionalized them and helped them develop. We set goals each semester, one professional and one personal. We know each other's 5 Strengths and refer to them when projects are to be assigned or reviewed. Looking for more Strengths Based activities to use in monthly meetings.

I had to get this for a class, and my mom found it interesting, so I ended up buying her a copy of the book because you can't just buy more access codes to take the leadership assessment again..Unless I'm missing something. You have to buy a book if you want another code for those who might be wondering.

This book was recommend reading through my MBA and the book did not disappoint. I've always felt that as part of the annual personal development process and mt career it was important to improve ones weaknesses. This books puts that theory in perspective by highlighting that it is about understanding your strenghts and using them as they give you your personal energy, great read.

Helps focus you

Online assessment of strengths is interesting. Book itself is business hype

Really interesting and well worth reading or listening to on Audible

Fab book! Great investment