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Becoming a Strategic Leader: Capitalize on the Power of Your Personality
This book shows senior leaders how to leverage their unique personalities as an essential resource to help guide their organizations.
Conventional leadership coaching approaches focus primarily on personal change, exploring the qualities that define successful leaders. But to truly play transformative and visionary roles within their organizations, C-suite and other senior leaders must accurately gauge their own strengths and weaknesses, and learn to identify and address the "shadow side" of their personality traits.
This book offers a unique model for strategic leadership by encouraging leaders to think carefully about their personal leadership styles. The authors show readers how to use their Big Five personality profiles to identify their unique personality strengths, how to understand the personality styles of others they encounter in professional scenarios, and how to use this knowledge to steer their organizations to greater success.
Becoming a Strategic Leader also provides guidelines for coaching staff, managing performance, creating an optimal work culture, and establishing best practices for planning and leadership in the workplace.
Conventional leadership coaching approaches focus primarily on personal change, exploring the qualities that define successful leaders. But to truly play transformative and visionary roles within their organizations, C-suite and other senior leaders must accurately gauge their own strengths and weaknesses, and learn to identify and address the "shadow side" of their personality traits.
This book offers a unique model for strategic leadership by encouraging leaders to think carefully about their personal leadership styles. The authors show readers how to use their Big Five personality profiles to identify their unique personality strengths, how to understand the personality styles of others they encounter in professional scenarios, and how to use this knowledge to steer their organizations to greater success.
Becoming a Strategic Leader also provides guidelines for coaching staff, managing performance, creating an optimal work culture, and establishing best practices for planning and leadership in the workplace.
267 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 5, 2023
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July 22, 2025
Not a bad read, but felt very… clinical at times. While scientifically backed and rife with scenario-driven explanations from user stories, the overall sense is “this is the key!” (which just starts popping up red flags in my book).
Personality definitely plays a big role in business and teams, there’s no questioning that, but I do wonder how many other factors get conflated in the approach described.
That said, I’ll probably pick up a Kindle copy for highlighting and to read further. Still not five stars… but useful nonetheless.
Personality definitely plays a big role in business and teams, there’s no questioning that, but I do wonder how many other factors get conflated in the approach described.
That said, I’ll probably pick up a Kindle copy for highlighting and to read further. Still not five stars… but useful nonetheless.
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