Power Score: Your Formula for Leadership Success

by Geoff Smart, Randy Street, Alan Foster

ghSMART, the bestselling team behind The A Method for Hiring, returns with a breakthrough formula for how the best leaders and teams deliver results.   “ghSMART is the world’s top firm for helping leaders hire talented teams and run them at full power. Nothing is more important.”—Marshall Goldsmith, bestselling author of Mojo and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There   “The most useful book about leadership.” That is what we hope you and your team will say after finishing Power Score.   Is your team running at full power?   Only 10 percent of leaders run their teams at full power.   The formula you are about to learn is based on the most extensive research of its kind, spanning more than 15,000 careers with over 9 million data points. The idea has been battle-tested for more than two decades by leaders in every major industry. It works.   Successful leadership starts with three key   1. Priorities—Do we have the right priorities? (Only 24 percent of leaders do.) 2. Who—Do we have the right people on the team? (Only 14 percent of leaders do.) 3. Relationships—Do we have the right relationships that deliver results? (Only 47 percent of leaders do.)   Learn how to calculate your team’s Power Score, and how to improve each of the three key areas of leadership. Learn what to do, and what not do, from compelling statistics and inspiring stories of those leaders who have succeeded and those who have failed.   You may be surprised how easy it is to read this little book. And you may be even more surprised by how fast this approach will boost your team’s results.   When you dial up your team’s Power Score, you will make a greater impact as a leader, help your team earn more money for your cause (whatever your cause may be), and enjoy greater career success.Praise for Power Score  “Shaking distrust out of an organization is hard. But the payoff is immense. Bravo to Smart, Street and Foster for sharing their ideas about how to make that happen.”—Forbes“[Power Score] offers insights on improving in each dimension and inspiration. It’s written briskly, in a question-and-answer format that keeps ideas clear and concise. The book’s a winner and maybe you will be too if you try its approach.”—The Globe and Mail“The power score is the secret sauce that gives the group the information needed to fix problems. The authors provide plenty of guidance presented in an accessible Q&A format.”—Success“I wouldn’t be surprised if Power Score became the new go-to guide for leadership. Effective teams are key in everything from healthcare to business to government to nonprofits, and this book will help organizations change the conversation about getting results.”—Atul Gawande, New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and The Checklist Manifesto   “Smart, Street, and Fo

Genres: Business, Leadership, Management, Nonfiction, Audiobook, Buisness, Business Leadership

193 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 4, 2015

About the author

Dr. Geoff Smart is Chairman & Founder of ghSMART, a leadership consulting firm that serves Fortune 500 CEOs and boards, billionaire entrepreneurs, and heads of state. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Who, Leadocracy, and Power Score: Your Formula for Leadership Success.

Reviews

[Agoes · Rating 3 out of 5]

Finished reading this book after reading the WHO Method. I guess this is the extension of their previous book. It gives a simple framework on how to understand your effectiveness as a leader, using the acronym “PWR” (Power). The examples are interesting, but needs more elaboration on how to increase your PWR Score. The books they recommend (Further Reading) helps a bit.

[Donna · Rating 4 out of 5]

It’s a pretty good book that both inspires you to be a better leader and helps to show you the steps you need to take in order to do so. I’m going to be working with my team on coming up with our PWR score and making it better. We shall see what the outcome is

[Scott Wozniak · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a quick read, naming three critical areas for leaders to get right: Priorities (strategy/focus), Who (right people in the right roles), Relationships (alignment/collaboration).

The best part about the book is the examples. They give an example of it done wrong and done right, then help you with a simple scoring system to help you pin down how well you're doing.

What's lacking in the book (and why they can deliver a short book) is that there's very little on how to change. The only area that has real clarity is the Who section, where they summarize the big points from their previous bestselling book on that. But even then, it's a summary, not a specific tool. (But you can read their other book for that, if you want.)

So, if you're looking for a quick read to help you evaluate where you are at, this is great. If you want to turn the ship you're driving, then you're going to need more.

[Dai Duong · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cuốn sách mô tả một mô hình hết sức thực dụng về lãnh đạo, nếu lãnh đạo là một con đường phát triển khó để chúng ta định ra các cột mốc quan trọng, để hiểu chúng ta đang ở đâu trong nghề lãnh đạo của mình. Khái niệm này được lượng hoá bằng công thức

Power score = P * W * R

Với thang điểm cho mỗi chỉ số là 1-10/ Thang điểm lãnh đạo từ 1-1000

Trong đó P là priorities, được đánh giá qua việc lãnh đạo có mang tới một mục tiêu rõ ràng, chính xác hay không, nó bao gồm: Connected to mission, Correct và Clear

W là who, đánh giá bằng việc lãnh đạo có đủ A players trên chuyến xe của mình hay không, bao gồm Diagnosed, Deployed và Develop

R là relasionship, là khả năng lãnh đạo mang các A-players của mình vào một nhóm tạo ra kết quả, nó sẽ bao gồm Coordinated, Committed và Challenged

[Kevin Eikenberry · Rating 5 out of 5]

If in over 20 years you conducted interviews with 15,000 leaders, and if, while doing that, you had a rigorous process for capturing what you learned; do you think you might learn something about what makes leaders successful?

The good news is that you don’t have to do those interviews. The authors of this book (and their team) have done that work for you. They have analyzed the results and created from what they have learned a very straightforward model for judging your leadership success.

They call it a Power Score.

Read more...

[Ade Iskandar · Rating 4 out of 5]

Buku ini sangat menginspirasi dan memberikan keyakinan! Kita jadi yakin dan berani menghadapi tantangan kepemimpinan, karena kesuksesan tim itu cuma masalah mengalikan Prioritas (P) x Siapa (W) x Hubungan (R). Dengan formula sederhana ini, kita akan merasakan bahwa sebenarnya masalah besar di tim kita hanyalah sinyal untuk fokus pada pilar yang paling lemah. Terima kasih telah memberikan formula kemenangan!

[Bishal Kumar · Rating 4 out of 5]

Power score present simple yet powerful technique towards building up strategy.
P= Priorities
W= Who
R= Relationship
These three are pillars that has been discussed, and then how to achieve. Do read if into a leadership / People managing role.

[Garland Vance · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love the books that come out of GH Smart because they’re filled with data-driven insights. This was excellent as it revealed that the best leaders focus on Priorities, Who, and Relationships. Great insights and very actionable.

[Viktor Villand · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some good ideas about how to increase leadership, but really difficult to understand how to really calculate the power score.

[Walter · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good management framework but I didn't enjoy the writing style. Still a quick read worth anyone checking out.

[Matthew William · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great leadership book. Easy to apply principles.

[Nirmal · Rating 5 out of 5]

Simple and very practical book for every leaders and entrepreneurs.

[Rob Barto · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good read that reinforces the WHO mentality. I wasn’t the biggest fan of the conversation style of the book, but still great principles.

[R Santer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Apprenticeship book 3. This was an excellent management book, it was very interesting.

[Muhammad Anas · Rating 4 out of 5]

7/10 ⭐️ Generic, yet, good textbook-style leadership book for corporate executives

PWR-
Priorities
Who
Relationship

Controls the quality of these metrics, you’ll get a great team

[John Anderson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Did not like the Q&A format.

[Phaedon · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read Who: The A Method for Hiring a couple of years ago and it provided some much needed help in building my company's team. Now as that company and team are turning from small to medium(ish) I was on the lookout for practical advice on how to lead and manage and Power Score seemed like a good place to start.

Power Score is a short and practical read. It is basically a simple framework for how to assess leadership success. It tells you were to focus, and offers some simple (but relatively powerful) advice on what to do in each of the key areas of focus that it outlines. I've found it very useful.

The only thing I can fault in this book is the same issue I had with Who. While some of the advice is applicable to businesses of all sizes, some of it is really aimed at larger companies only. In fact, I think there's an implicit assumption in here about a minimum team size at the very least. I realised as I was reading it that my team was not yet of that size, but still, this gave me a good sense of what we should be working towards as we grow. The Who section certainly offers valuable advice on how to grow a team.

I'd recommend this book to anyone running a company with at least 10 employees and a couple of layers of hierarchy. I wouldn't dissuade anyone in a smaller business from reading it, but in that scenario, it may be less actionable and more aspirational.

[Phil Ren · Rating 4 out of 5]

In the three sections of the book, I highlight the first two, on priority seeking and hiring standard. The author holds a correct view of relationship, but provided less useful guides. I personally like WHO! better.

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

After having read "Who" by Geoff Smart and others which contained some good original material, I was eager to read his latest book on leadership. Unfortunately, it was a bit of a letdown and was disappointing in that a good portion of it was a rehash of the prior book. The basic concept is good, but hardly enough novel material to fill a whole book, resorting to a lot of filler and rather superficial solutions. At times, I felt like it was either an advertisement for some influential business leaders or a great marketing device to keep his ghSMART business thriving. Not a bad approach, of course, but not worth the price of the book or the time reading it, in my estimation.

There is nothing new about his contention that good leaders need to set priorities, measure them and hire good people to do them while maintaining good relationships. That's about it, other than ranking yourself on each category and multiplying the numbers together to come up with a "Power Score". The format of question and answer also seemed a bit contrived.

If you have never read a book on leadership, you might find this one appealing as it is relatively short and easy reading, but if you want a little more substance, I would go elsewhere. Unfortunately, there is not much new to say about leadership, which remains more an art than a science.

[Kelly · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wish I could give this 4.5 stars to indicate how important I think the reader should read "Who" by the same author first, and that Who goes much more deeply on the topic of hiring/team-building with many more practical and actionable techniques offered. That said, this is a well-written, clear and concise book that anyone leading or managing a team can learn from and take effective action quickly with regards to establishing and communicating PRIORITIES, putting the right people on your team in the right roles (Who), and instilling the necessary RELATIONSHIPS and cadences.

I also loved the anecdotes about several of my friends and colleagues!

[Mike · Rating 4 out of 5]

Provides an interesting way to quantify your organization or teams performance. Provides a simple methods for analyzing the success of your group, team or organization. While a lot of these management books provide common sense, and things that seem obvious, the "case studies" and real life application and scenarios are always worth looking at and learning from.

[John T Netterville · Rating 5 out of 5]

Concise, clear and realistic

This book makes a perfect companion handbook to WHO. It speaks in a very clear and empowering way that helped me to not only see and understand the tools for company performance, but also left me with the confidence that I can use them to effectively immediately.

[Dipen Baria · Rating 5 out of 5]

Highly effective book on leadership and management, talks about what hinders a team from being successful. The major three aspects for the team work are enlightened through out the book. At the ending of each chapter you can count your own score by the given exercise. As the book is written after analysing the data of leading firms the conclusions looks impactful.

[Donn Gilray · Rating 5 out of 5]

No Fluff! Every page has relevance!

I first read Who as a required reading item from our company's last leadership conference. The Who part of this book is a condensed version of Who. The formula makes perfect sense. The principles can be applied to yourself, your team, or company. It's like you already know the principles but haven't tied them together lime ghSMART has.

[Dmytro · Rating 2 out of 5]

The earlier book published by these authors was called "Who: A Method for Hiring" and that book was really good. I was disappointed that this book wasn't that good.
I think the author is trying to capitalize on prior success

[John · Rating 5 out of 5]

An extremely clear guide to business leadership and breaks it down into small easy to manage chunks.

[Sarah Dussault]

This was a great SHORT book. Tons of information and tangible take aways for strengthening a team. I will definitely be reading this again.

[Chandy OT · Rating 5 out of 5]

It is about priorities than the person who we will task to lead each priorities. How success it is to take the down the elephant is really appoint the right person to take out the right spot.

[Cikko Cikko · Rating 5 out of 5]

easily read and fresh for you to get to the core of management.
PWR formula is a basic concept that you need to understand and implemented in your daily life.

[Maram Ghaziz]

Very nice book but I found it boring sometimes