ACTUAL BOOK

This book was required reading as part of my Emerging Leaders program at work as we prepare for our “stretch” projects.  The basis of the book is an online strengths assessment called StrenghtsFinder 2.0.  With the purchase of the book, you get a code to take the online assessment, which returns five strength areas based on your answers.  The book has a reference section where it discusses each strength and what they really mean.  The crux of the whole book is that you should play to your strengths and surround yourself with people with contrasting strengths instead of trying to improve your weaknesses.  Overall, I think the assessment and strength descriptions are informative and could be of good use.  The rest of the book seemed to be more filler and rah-rah stories of how various leaders have played to their strengths.  If you’re interested in the assessment, I recommend just picking up the StrengthsFinder 2.0 book as you can do without the additional stories in this expanded edition.