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Management Mess to Leadership Success: 30 Challenges to Become the Leader You Would Follow (Wall Street Journal Best Selling Author, Leadership Mentoring & Coaching)
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"With laugh-out-loud humor and unconventional wisdom, Management Mess to Leadership Success will provide you with the tools to become the leader you would choose to follow." —Karen Dillon Author of The Harvard Business Review Guide to Office Politics
Winner of Bookpal's 2019 Outstanding Works of Literature (O.W.L) award in Leadership! Forbes Holiday Wish List.
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.
Scott 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. Everyone fails. But something sets Scott apart: transparency and willingness to openly share his story in a way that is forthright, relatable, and applicable.
You can become a better leader. 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.
Learn to:
- Lead difficult conversations, celebrate success
- Inspire trust, actively listen, challenge paradigms
- Put the right people in the right roles
- Create a clear and actionable team vision
- Get the right results―in the right way
Fans of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People who have read and liked Radical Candor, Dare to Lead, or Mastering Leadership will love Scott Miller’s Management Mess to Leadership Success.
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781642500882 |
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Publisher: | Mango Media |
Publication date: | 06/18/2019 |
Series: | Mess to Success |
Pages: | 256 |
Sales rank: | 540,070 |
Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Introduction 9
Part 1 Lead Yourself
Challenge 1 Demonstrate Humility 15
Challenge 2 Think Abundantly 23
Challenge 3 Listen First 29
Challenge 4 Declare Your Intent 37
Challenge 5 Make and Keep Commitments 43
Challenge 6 Carry Your Own Weather 51
Challenge 7 Inspire Trust 57
Challenge 8 Model Work/Life Balance 65
Part 2 Lead Others
Challenge 9 Place the Right People in the Right Roles 73
Challenge 10 Make Time for Relationships 79
Challenge 11 Check Your Paradigms 87
Challenge 12 Lead Difficult Conversations 93
Challenge 13 Talk Straight 101
Challenge 14 Balance Courage and Consideration 107
Challenge 15 Show Loyalty 113
Challenge 16 Make It Safe to Tell the Truth 119
Challenge 17 Right Wrongs 125
Challenge 18 Coach Continuously 131
Challenge 19 Protect Your Team Against Urgencies 137
Challenge 20 Hold Regular 1-on-1s 143
Challenge 21 Allow Others To Be Smart 149
Part 3 Get Results
Challenge 22 Create Vision 157
Challenge 23 Identify the Wildly Important Goals (WIGs) 163
Challenge 24 Align Actions With the Wildly Important Goals 169
Challenge 25 Ensure Your Systems Support Your Mission 175
Challenge 26 Deliver Results 181
Challenge 27 Celebrate Wins 187
Challenge 28 Make High-Value Decisions 193
Challenge 29 Lead Through Change 201
Challenge 30 Get Better 209
A Final Thought What About Character?
Character 218
Challenge Sources 219
Acknowledgments 223
Notes and References 227
Index 231
Scott Jeffrey Miller 241
What People are Saying About This
"With his signature wit and honesty, Scott Miller lays bare his own leadership follies and illustrates how easily we get trapped in self-centered management. This book is not only full of humorous moments on every page, it's also densely packed with practical tipsall drawn from world-class management wisdomthat will help you get out of your own way and be the leader everyone wants to follow." Liz Wiseman Author of Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter
"Why should anyone follow you? That's the question at the heart of Scott Miller's raw and real new book. He lays out 30 powerful principles to help you answer that question to become the leader you were meant to be. And he does so with authenticity and vulnerability that demand you pay attention." Daniel H. Pink Author of When, To Sell Is Human, and Drive
"With laugh-out-loud humor and unconventional wisdom, Miller offers a must-read leadership book to guide leaders striving for more--more impact, more understanding, more vision, more purpose. Management Mess to Leadership Success will provide you with the tools to become the leader you would choose to follow." Karen Dillon Author of The Harvard Business Review Guide to Office Politics
"Honest, heartfelt, and generous, this is the new classic on authentic leadership." Seth Godin Author of This Is Marketing