Strengths-based Leadership
Key Idea
The path to being a leader starts with understanding your strengths. The most effective leaders also recognize how critical it is to build a team with complementary strengths.
Book to Read
Strengths-based Leadership
by Tom Rath and Barry Conchie (2008)
Quick Take from the Book
The Gallup Organization has identified 34 distinct leadership strengths, along four domains:
- Executing
- Influencing
- Relationship building
- Strategic thinking
Quote of Note
"A leader needs to know his strengths as a carpenter knows his tools, or as a physician knows the instruments at her disposal. What great leaders have in common is that each truly knows his or her strengths – and can call on the right strength at the right times."
— Don Clifton (cited in Strengths-based Leadership)
Related Styles: Ontological Leadership, Charismatic Leadership
