How to Be a Leader: 15 Minutes a Day to Establish Communication, Resiliency, Creativity, and Humility
- 2h 40m 21s
- David M. Cote
- HarperCollins Leadership
- 2024
What qualities come to mind when you think about a good leader? Good listener, empathetic, good communication skills, humble, and clear expectations. Whether you're leading a small or large team, How to Be a Leader by former Honeywell CEO David Cote is a resource that will help you become the leader everyone respects and follows.
60 entries each focus on a leadership topic, highlight Cote's advice, and end with a prompt to help you build your leadership skills. How to Be a Leader will teach you how to:
- pursue long- and short- term goals.
- commit to change and the best ways to implement change.
- inspire others and push yourself at the same time.
- create alignment around company strategy.
- improve productivity and manage different opinions.
- create a diverse and connected culture.
Leadership isn't about having all the answers or having control of everything. Leadership means bringing out the best in your employees, creating paths that work for your business, and building a presence that exists in small and big moments.
About the Author
As Chairman and CEO of the industrial giant Honeywell over 16 years, David Cote grew the company’s market capitalization from around $20 billion to nearly $120 billion, delivering returns of 800 percent and beating the S&P by nearly two and a half times.
Currently, David is Executive Chairman of Vertiv Holdings Co, a global data center products and services provider. He is a member of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group and on the Boards of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Conference of Montreal.
In this Audiobook
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Introduction
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Day 1 - You Can Do Better
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Day 2 - You Must Pursue Long-and Short-Term Goals
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Day 3 - Commit to “Blue Book” Sessions
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Day 4 - Adopt an Intellectual Mindset
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Day 5 - Stop Doing the Same Thing Over and Over
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Day 6 - No More Lame Presentations
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Day 7 - Stop Intellectual Laziness
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Day 8 - Leadership Framework
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Day 9 - Planning for the Long-term
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Day 10 - Take Your Three Minutes
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Day 11 - Pushing Others Means Pushing Yourself
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Day 12 - Align Your Organization Around the Strategy
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Day 13 - You Are a Performance Coach
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Day 14 - Tighten Up Your Metrics
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Day 15 - Start Scheduling “X” Days
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Day 16 - Meetings & Notes
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Day 17 - Fewer Leaders
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Day 18 - Question Yourself
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Day 19 - What’s Your Meeting Mindset?
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Day 20 - Control Your Ego
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Day 21 - Managing Different Opinions
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Day 22 - Include Special Exercises
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Day 23 - Instill an Intellectual Mindset
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Day 24 - Overcoming Short-termism
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Day 25 - Make Strategy Part of Daily Work
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Day 26 - Legacy Issues
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Day 27 - Enlist Employees to Improve Processes
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Day 28 - Go Deep on Process
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Day 29 - Revolutionary Change Isn’t the Way to Move
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Day 30 - Creating Culture
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Day 31 - Spread the Culture—and Spread It Some More
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Day 32 - Don’t Let Your Culture Limit You
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Day 33 - Hiring
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Day 34 - Create a Succession Plan
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Day 35 - Make Performance Reviews Meaningful
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Day 36 - Hold People Accountable & Beware of Upward Delegation
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Day 37 - Don’t Hold on to Poor Performers
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Day 38 - Provide Feedback in a Way Recipients Can Internalize
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Day 39 - Pay Well
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Day 40 - Hire Deliberately & Find the Tom Brady Within
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Day 41 - Smart Isn’t Enough
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Day 42 - Always Strive to Please Your Customers
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Day 43 - Metrics Are Trickier Than They Seem
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Day 44 - Pay Attention to the End User
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Day 45 - Pick Your Growth Priorities
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Day 46 - Keep Scanning the Horizon
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Day 47 - M&A: Step One Build a Robust Pipeline (Identification)
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Day 48 - M&A: Step Two Kill Bad Deals (Due Diligence)
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Day 49 - M&A: Step Three Never Overpay (Valuation)
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Day 50 - M&A: Step Four Great Track Record (Integration)
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Day 51 - Managing Your Portfolio
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Day 52 - Postmortem Analyses
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Day 53 - Leading Through a Recession
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Day 54 - Maintaining Your Talent Base in Tough Times
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Day 55 - Common Cost-Cutting Responses to Recessions
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Day 56 - Keep Supplier Relationships Strong
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Day 57 - Work Collaboratively When Making Big Decisions
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Day 58 - Always Be Honest With Your Employees
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Day 59 - Manage the Leadership Transition
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Day 60 - Be Relentless
