Führungsstärke: Was Erfolgreiche Führungskräfte Auszeichnet (2009) - Plot & Excerpts
This was required reading for a new small college library directors program I participated in. Like many books of its type, the main points could be summarized in a single page vs. an entire book. In a nutshell, identify and play off your particular leadership strengths, and also identify and integrate the different leadership strengths of your team to form a stronger whole. It's a quick read, and half the book is made up of appendices detailing and offering prescriptions for each strength type.The book comes with an access code for taking the strengths test. I found the results to be mostly on target with my personal understanding of my particular strengths, but didn't seem to capture what I would call "secondary leanings". Perhaps its not supposed to...Anyway, it wasn't scintillating reading, but I found it useful enough that I plan to have my entire team read and take the test later this year. The book's basic premise is that there is no one set of characteristics that form a good leader, and that the best way for anyone to be a leader is to identify their own strengths and build on them. Trying to conform to some other notion of what a good leader is like will simply result in mediocrity. Four broad categories of leadership styles (executing, influencing, relationship building, and strategic thinking) are broken into 34 strengths (e.g., achiever, discipline, competition, adaptability, analytical, etc.). Each of those has a few pages in the book describing how to lead with that strength. I found this book especially helpful, because my lowest-scoring areas are what I think of as stereotypically leadership traits (e.g., discipline and command).My strengths are mostly relationship building and strategic thinking: relator, empathy, intellection, ideation, and belief.
What do You think about Führungsstärke: Was Erfolgreiche Führungskräfte Auszeichnet (2009)?
Kind of hokey.... But the Assessment is very cool!
—nickey011
