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The Five Talents That Really Matter

How Great Leaders Drive Extraordinary Performance

Barry Conchie Sarah Dalton

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John Murray Business
27 August 2024
A former Gallup Global Leadership Research and Development leader and the New York Times bestselling coauthor of Strengths-Based Leadership demystifies the aura and complexity surrounding high performing leaders through original research and interviews with high-performing global leaders.

The leadership space is rife with myths, such as the belief that anyone can be a leader with enough effort or that a leader's strengths can be their greatest weaknesses. According to Barry Conchie and his business partner Sarah Dalton, these statements are unfounded. THE FIVE TALENTS THAT REALLY MATTER explains how high-performing leaders are talented in five essential ways.

This book strips away the fluff in leadership and unveils and describes the traits and characteristics that actually determine high-performance leadership. These talents provide a template against which career-driven managers and leaders can assess and develop their own capabilities. The five evidence-based talent dimensions are:

- Direction:

High-performing leaders describe a compelling,

intrinsically good destination and help others understand that getting

there will be worth the effort.

- Drive:

This dimension hardly needs a description. We all know

it when we see it: strong work ethic, tenacity, goal-orientation... being a

self-starter.

- Influence:

The ability to motivate, persuade, challenge, and

change the minds of others.

- Relationships:

People matter to outstanding leaders. They can

build commitment and trust among the people they work with.

- Execution: Excellent leaders are obsessed with getting work done

and how work gets done.

Through meticulous research, assessment, and testing, Conchie and Dalton have built a database that predicts the talents and behaviours of the most successful leaders.

In this book they present for the first the first time a scientific model that demystifies the aura and complexity surrounding high performing leaders.
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Imprint:   John Murray Business
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 232mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 26mm
Weight:   380g
ISBN:   9781399820257
ISBN 10:   1399820257
Pages:   320
Publication Date:  
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Barry Conchie (Author) Barry Conchie is Founder & President of Conchie Associates, which currently has a database of over 58k global C-suite executives. Previously, Barry headed the Gallup organization's Global Leadership Research and Development business. He is the NYT and WSJ best-selling co-author of Strengths-Based Leadership. Born and educated in the UK with a Masters in Cognitive Psychology and PhDs in Cognitive Neuroscience and Statistical Modeling at Oxford, his work for Gallup began in London where he developed their leadership consulting business across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, before moving to Washington, DC to assume global responsibilities in 2002. He has 40 years of experience in the areas of psychometric assessment and testing, executive coaching, top-level succession planning, individual and team optimization, organizational effectiveness, and strategic alignment. He has been ranked as one of the top 50 leadership thinkers in the world by Leadership Insights magazine. He lives in Boulder, Colorado. Sarah Dalton (Author) Sarah Dalton is a Partner at Conchie & Associates. She is certified in conducting executive level talent assessments and advises leaders and managers to better understand the attitudes and behaviours that drive performance, and how to select for talent in the hiring process. She trains teams on interpreting talent assessments and using those insights to bring about greater confidence in hiring decisions. Sarah has a Masters in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Colorado State University and lives in Denver, Colorado

Reviews for The Five Talents That Really Matter: How Great Leaders Drive Extraordinary Performance

The Five Talents is one of the sharpest and most practical books on leadership I have read! If you lead others, you need to read this book. If you hire or develop leaders, read this book and use it as a daily guide. It is a roadmap for developing sustainable and high performing teams. * Tom Rath, New York Times Best-selling Author of Strenthsfinder 2.0 * Conchie significantly advances the science of leadership prediction and performance development. * Connie Rath, President of The Clifton Foundation * If you allow yourself to absorb the lessons in this book, there is no hiding from the truth and what is the right thing to do. * George Borst, former President and CEO of Toyota Financial Services * The Five Talents is a practical unlock around the dominant strengths that define truly standout leadership and takes this framework to how you can recruit for the five key talents using the same rigor you would use to make other critical decisions. It's a highly efficient and well-researched work that will take your impact as a leader to a new level. * John Clendening, Founder and CEO of Earned Wealth * I highly recommend this book, which will challenge and broaden your thinking of leadership. It is blunt, fact-based and provides piercing insights that I will incorporate into my own leadership journey. * Kevin Lobo, Chair and CEO of Stryker * This is a wise book that will change how serious people think about leadership. Conchie and Dalton bring refreshing clarity to a complex and convoluted field by elucidating the tortuous relationship between individual traits and organizational context. Their secret--meticulous science. * Don Ronchi PhD, Senior Advisor at White Wolf Capital *


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