WHAT GREAT LEADERS ARE SAYING
Management Mess To Leadership Success
“Honest, heartfelt, and generous, this is the new classic on authentic leadership.”
- Seth Godin
Author of This Is Marketing
“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
“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 tips—all drawn from world-class management wisdom—that 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
“Owning your mess and being vulnerable makes you an even stronger leader and Scott Miller shows you exactly how.”
- Dave Hollis
Author of Get Out of Your Own Way
30 CHALLENGES TO BECOME THE LEADER YOU WOULD FOLLOW
In Management Mess to Leadership Success, you’ll find 30 leadership challenges, honed by FranklinCovey through years of research, that illustrate how to rise when you fall and how to survive and even thrive as a leader.
Apply these 30 leadership challenges and change the way you lead yourself, lead others, and get results.
LEAD YOURSELF
1. Demonstrate Humility
2. Think Abundantly
3. Listen First
4. Declare Your Intent
5. Make and Keep Commitments
6. Carry Your Own Weather
7. Inspire Trust
8. Model Work-Life Balance
LEAD OTHERS
9. Place the Right People in the Right Roles
10. Make Time for Relationships
11. Check Your Paradigms
12. Lead Difficult Conversations
13. Talk Straight
14. Balance Courage and Consideration
15. Show Loyalty
16. Make It Safe to Tell the Truth
17. Right Wrongs
18. Coach Continuously
19. Protect Your Team Against Urgencies
20. Hold Regular 1-on-1s
21. Allow Others to Be Smart
GET RESULTS
22. Create Vision
23. Identify the Wildly Important Goals (WIGs)
24. Align Actions with the Wildly Important Goals
25. Ensure Your Systems Support Your Mission
26. Deliver Results
27. Celebrate Wins
28. Make High-Value Decisions
29. Lead Through Change
30. Get Better
31. Bonus Chapter – What About Character?
SCOTT'S OWN MESS TO SUCCESS
Management Mess To Leadership Success
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Learn more about this Wall Street Journal bestselling author
SCOTT JEFFREY MILLER
Serves as FranklinCovey’s executive vice president of thought leadership and is the host of On Leadership With Scott Miller—a weekly leadership webcast, podcast, and newsletter. He is also a leadership columnist for Inc.com.
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Management Mess To Leadership Success
Your Leadership Skills Are About to Change
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 from his two-decade journey to leadership success. Scott is not alone. Everyone fails. But something sets Scott apart: his transparency and willingness to openly share his story in a way that is immediately relatable.
In Management Mess to Leadership Success, you’ll find 30 leadership challenges, honed by FranklinCovey through years of research that illustrate how to rise when you fall and how to survive and even thrive as a leader.
