Capping a 25-year career that included serving as a chief marketing officer and executive vice president of business development, Scott Jeffrey Miller currently serves as FranklinCovey’s senior advisor on thought leadership. He leads the strategy and development of the firm’s speaker’s bureau and publishes podcasts, webcasts, and bestselling books.

Miller hosts the FranklinCovey-sponsored On Leadership with Scott Miller, the world’s largest and fastest-growing leadership podcast, reaching more than six million people weekly. Miller also authors a leadership column for [...] and Utah Business and previously hosted the weekly iHeart Radio show Great Life, Great Career.

Miller is the author of the award-winning, multivolume Mess to Success series, including Management Mess to Leadership Success: 30 Challenges to Become the Leader You Would Follow and Marketing Mess to Brand Success: 30 Challenges to Transform Your Organization’s Brand (and Your Own). He is the co-author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Everyone Deserves a Great Manager: The 6 Critical Practices for Leading a Team and the author of The Ultimate Guide to Great Mentorship: 13 Roles to Making a True Impact and Career on Course: 10 Strategies to Take Your Career from Accidental to Intentional. His Master Mentors series features insights from his interviews with the leading thinkers of our time, including Seth Godin, Susan Cain, Dan Pink, General Stanley McChrystal, Liz Wiseman, and many others. Scott currently resides in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Introduction

Part 1: Lead Yourself

• Challenge 1: Demonstrate Humility
• Challenge 2: Think Abundantly
• Challenge 3: Listen First
• Challenge 4: Declare Your Intent
• Challenge 5: Make and Keep Commitments
• Challenge 6: Carry Your Own Weather
• Challenge 7: Inspire Trust
• Challenge 8: Model Work/Life Balance

• Challenge 9: Place the Right People in the Right Roles
• Challenge 10: Make Time for Relationships
• Challenge 11: Check Your Paradigms
• Challenge 12: Lead Difficult Conversations
• Challenge 13: Talk Straight
• Challenge 14: Balance Courage and Consideration
• Challenge 15: Show Loyalty
• Challenge 16: Make It Safe to Tell the Truth
• Challenge 17: Right Wrongs
• Challenge 18: Coach Continuously
• Challenge 19: Protect Your Team Against Urgencies
• Challenge 20: Hold Regular 1-on-1s
• Challenge 21: Allow Others To Be Smart

Part 3: Get Results

• Challenge 22: Create Vision
• Challenge 23: Identify the Wildly Important Goals (WIGs)
• Challenge 24: Align Actions With the Wildly Important Goals
• Challenge 25: Ensure Your Systems Support Your Mission
• Challenge 26: Deliver Results
• Challenge 27: Celebrate Wins
• Challenge 28: Make High-Value Decisions
• Challenge 29: Lead Through Change
• Challenge 30: Get Better

What About Character?

Challenge Sources

Acknowledgements

Notes and References

Index