Management Mess to Leadership Success: 30 Challenges to Become the Leader You Would Follow
- 2h 21m
- Scott Jeffrey Miller
- Mango Media
- 2019
Your Leadership Skills Are About to Change. Millions have read the all-time global best seller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey. Both leaders and individuals have been inspired and transformed by its universal principles of effectiveness, including Scott Jeffrey Miller. Miller, a student and personal friend of Stephen R. Covey, is now the new millennial voice of FranklinCovey leadership.
Scott Jeffrey Miller knows what it’s like to fail. He was demoted from his first leadership position after only three weeks―and that’s just one of several messy management experiences on his two-decade journey to leadership success. Scott’s not alone. Everyone fails. But something sets Scott apart: his transparency and willingness to openly share his story in a way that is forthright, relatable and applicable.
Thirty leadership challenges you can apply now. In Miller’s Management Mess to Leadership Success you’ll find 30 leadership challenges that can, when applied, change the way you manage yourself, lead others, and produce results. The wisdom in Scott’s book was learned through hard knocks and was honed by Stephen R. Covey and the FranklinCovey team through years of research and corporate training experience.
Illustrated with Scott’s real-life experiences, these challenges will teach you how to:
- Lead difficult conversations and celebrate success.
- Inspire trust, actively listen, and challenge paradigms.
- Put the right people in the right roles.
- Create a clear and actionable vision for your team.
- Accomplish your organization’s Wildly Important Goals®.
- Get the right results―in the right way.
- Become the leader you would follow.
About the Author
Entering his twenty-third year with FranklinCovey, Scott Miller serves as the executive vice president of thought leadership. He is the host of the FranklinCovey-sponsored On Leadership With Scott Miller, a weekly leadership webcast, podcast, and newsletter that features interviews with renowned business titans, authors, and thought leaders and is distributed to more than five million business leaders worldwide. He is also the host of the weekly radio program Great Life, Great Career With Scott Miller on iHeart Media's KNRS 105.9. This radio program and podcast provide insight and strategies drawn from FranklinCovey's leadership principles and from Miller's career and personal life experience to assist listeners in becoming more effective as business leaders and to improve their personal performance. Additionally, Miller authors a weekly leadership column for Inc. magazine.
In this Book
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Introduction
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Demonstrate Humility
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Think Abundantly
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Listen First
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Declare Your Intent
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Make and Keep Commitments
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Carry Your Own Weather
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Inspire Trust
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Model Work/Life Balance
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Place the Right People in the Right Roles
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Make Time for Relationships
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Check Your Paradigms
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Lead Difficult Conversations
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Talk Straight
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Balance Courage and Consideration
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Show Loyalty
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Make it Safe to Tell the Truth
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Right Wrongs
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Coach Continuously
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Protect Your Team against Urgencies
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Hold Regular 1-on-1s
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Allow others to Be Smart
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Create Vision
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Identify the Wildly Important Goals (WIGs)
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Align Actions with the Wildly Important Goals
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Ensure Your Systems Support Your Mission
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Deliver Results
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Celebrate Wins
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Make High-Value Decisions
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Lead Through Change
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Get Better
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A Final Thought—What about Character?
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Challenge Sources
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Notes and References
