A review by lisadb
Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow by Gallup

3.0

Really enjoyed Gallup's "First, Break All the Rules" as a foundational management book. This was interesting but a bit weaker, with only about 100 pages of content. Gallup argues that not every leader can be strong in everything (fair). But then it's unclear to me still if leaders must be strong in one of the four areas they recommend, or if the leadership team as a whole needs to encompass the four areas. If so, it would have been more helpful for Gallup to share how a leadership team can balance itself out and collaboratively develop these strengths, as opposed to spending the majority of the book on case studies of leaders with strengths in a particular area. I thought the case studies were interesting and I underlined a lot, but it still didn't teach me how to form that holistic leadership team.