Degrees of Strength: The Innovative Technique to Accelerate Greatness

by Craig W. Ross, Steven W. Vannoy

Improve performance, increase responsibility and accountability, build agile, capable teams, and do it with one quick read. What would you pay for greater responsibility and performance momentum within your team? Degrees of Strength shows you how. Short enough to read in one plane ride, your team will be inspired to solve the problems that have slowed success, even those tenacious ones that have plagued your team or family for years. This is a story rooted in the professional and personal life. A regional VP's job is on the line, and her family is, too. She needs to find a way to turn her team's performance around and has no money to throw at the problem. It's real. We've worked with these people. What follows is the struggle of change as her team fights with each other—and with themselves—to implement the new technique. In the end, they win more than they could have imagined.

124 pages, Hardcover

First published January 23, 2012

Reviews

[Farrah]

This thing is dog shit. It literally references the Degrees of Strength technique from the jump without explaining it. And it's my least favorite form of writing where the author rehashes conversations which never happened as a vehicle to explain an idea assuming that a "conversation" is easier to relate to and follow. It's not. I still am not sure what's happening but I found the technique at the appendix in the back of the book. Who signed off on this? Daffy Duck with no pants on?

I was amazed to actually see one thing in here during my perusal: one of my theories on work and output, "I became so driven by what had to be done that I value the outcome more than the method by which we got there." It's like I always say, it's not whether or not it gets done but how it gets done.

[Theresa Letman]

Filled with extraordinary tools and important questions we should all consider as leaders. A must read.