The Self-Evolved Leader: Elevate Your Focus and Develop Your People In a World That Refuses to Slow Down

by Dave McKeown

Overview

Bad habits die hard, even in fast-growth industries. In The Self-Evolved Leader, leadership expert Dave McKeown unpacks the most prevalent myths about running a business in fast-growth industries, carefully debunking the usefulness of longstanding tactics such as stepping in to save the day for your team—every day.

Self-driven leadership evolution. Instead of offering the same tired, ineffective tips that just drain the mental resources of business leaders, McKeownoutlines real skills, mindset shifts, and management rituals that you can implement every day to empower your people to perform at their highest level, no tedious oversight required. The book includes a comprehensive 15-week program designed to help you evolve your leadership style with the kind of flexible, adaptable best practices that work to deliver results, company-wide.

The leadership practices outlined in this book can help you:
* Break bad managerial habits and replace them with ones that work
* Increase your company’s agility in fast-growth industries
​* Create a culture of high performance in your workplace

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781626346802
Publisher:	Greenleaf Book Group Press
Publication date:	01/28/2020
Pages:	248
Sales rank:	1,210,248
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Leadership expert Dave McKeown helps individuals, teams, and organizations to lead with authenticity, purpose, and effectiveness. He has a wealth of experience in connecting individual and team performance to improved business results with a particular focus on fast-growing, complex organizations. 

Dave started his career as a Consultant at Accenture, quickly moving to become the COO and then President of Predictable Success, a boutique consultancy focused on helping complex businesses achieve scalability. 

Whilst at Predictable Success he also ran Inc. Consulting, a joint venture with Inc. Media which helped companies on, or aspiring to be on, the Inc. 5000. achieve consistent, scalable growth. 

As Founder and CEO of Outfield Leadership, Dave now speaks, coaches and trains on the mindset, skillset, and toolkit needed to master the craft of leadership. His goal is to help organizations build a culture of real, authentic but ultimately results-driven leadership. 

He has shared his leadership strategies at the Inc. 500 and Growco conferences, for Bank of America, the British Government, Entrepreneur's Organization, Bamboo HR and countless others. 

He has worked with leaders at Spectrum Health, Renewal by Andersen, Akamai, NYSE and many smaller, fast-growing organizations. He is the host of the podcast 'Lead Like you Give a Damn' and writes a weekly leadership column for Inc.Com. 

A native of Ireland, Dave now resides in Southern California with his wonderful wife, Paris and awesome Staffie, Maggie. 

Table of Contents

Introduction: What Came Before Is No Longer Enough 1

Part 1 Preparing for Self-Evolved Leadership

1 Break the Cycle of Mediocrity 17

2 Reset Your Perspective on Leadership 31

Part 2 The Key Elements of Self-Evolved Leadership

3 Vision-Set a Shared Destination 47

4 Pulse-Build an Implementation Rhythm 61

5 Discipline-Develop the Key Practices 77

Part 3 Mastering the Self-Evolved Leadership Disciplines

6 Reclaim Your Attention 101

7 Facilitate Team Flow 117

8 Support High Performance 133

9 Have Symbiotic Conversations 147

10 Build Shared Accountability 163

Part 4 Sustaining Self-Evolved Leadership

11 Your Journey to Self-Evolved Leadership 179

12 Toward a Self-Evolved Organization 217

Index 225

About the Author 235