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The Intelligent Leader

Author John Mattone
Release Date: 2019/10/01
ISBN: 9781119566243
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Book Description

Grow Your Leadership. Enrich Your Life. Leave a Lasting Legacy.

What is great leadership? What separates the merely competent leaders from those rare individuals who leave a lasting impression on everyone around them?

As one of the world’s most in-demand CEO coaches and top leadership gurus, John Mattone has worked with some of our brightest business minds—Apple’s Steve Jobs, Pepsi’s Roger Enrico, and Nielsen’s Armando Uriegas—and he’s identified the key qualities that, together, make up the mindset of great leadership.

In The Intelligent Leader, Mattone lays out an accessible, practical, and compelling path that anyone can take to become the kind of leader that brings enrichment to the lives of others, enjoys a more fulfilling life, and leaves a lasting legacy. Each chapter uses a variety of real-world examples, tools, and assessments to explore one of Mattone’s 7 dimensions of Intelligent Leadership, including:

• Thinking differently, thinking big
• Having a mindset of duty vs. a mindset of entitlement
• Leveraging your gifts and addressing your gaps
• Having the courage to execute with pride, passion, and precision

Readers will have complimentary online access to the Mattone Leadership Enneagram Inventory ($110 value), which offers a personalized assessment of your leadership style and maturity. 

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Foreword
  3. Preface: A Demand for Depth
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction: Do You Have What It Takes to Inspire Others to Follow?
    1. Identifying the Goal
    2. The X Factor
    3. The Whole Enchilada
    4. We’re All Leaders
    5. The Road Ahead
    6. Establishing Your Network
    7. An Invitation to Go Deep
  6. Chapter 1 Getting to Know Thyself
    1. Getting to the Why of Things
    2. How Strong Is Your Character?
    3. Values: Your Criteria for Life
    4. Mind the Gaps
    5. Who Do You Think You Are?
    6. Believe It or Not . . .
    7. The Bridge to the Outer Core
    8. Putting It All Together: The Spectrum of Intelligent Leadership
    9. Fake It ’til You Make It
  7. Chapter 2 Thinking Differently, Thinking Big
    1. Being a Trendsetter
    2. Holding a Massive Vision
    3. How Big Do You Think?
    4. Beginning with the End in Mind
    5. Don’t Let Your Big Thinking Give You a Big Head
    6. Exercise: Developing Your Core Purpose Statement
  8. Chapter 3 The Vulnerability Decision
    1. Making the Choice to Be Vulnerable
    2. The Gateway to Change
    3. Vulnerability and the Bottom Line
    4. Admitting Your Flaws Builds Trust
    5. Creating a Culture of Vulnerability
    6. Can You Be Too Humble?
    7. Practicing Vulnerability
  9. Chapter 4 Having a Mindset of Entitlement versus a Mindset of Duty
    1. Seeing Through Your Entitlement
    2. The Duty Mindset: Context Is Everything
    3. From Setback to Opportunity: Overcoming the Victim Mentality
    4. The First Three Dimensions: A Package Deal
    5. Don’t Forget to Put on Your Own Oxygen Mask First
    6. Cultivating a Duty Mindset
  10. Chapter 5 Leveraging Your Gifts and Addressing Your Gaps
    1. Mindset Applied
    2. The Negativity Bias
    3. Mind the Gap
    4. Going on to Perfection
    5. Striking the Right Balance
    6. Zeroing in, Moving Forward
  11. Chapter 6 Having the Courage to Execute with Pride, Passion, and Precision
    1. Moving out of Your Comfort Zone
    2. Cultivating Courage, in Spite of Resistance
    3. The Three Qualities of Courageous Action
    4. Change Takes Courage
    5. The Ultimate Catalyst
    6. Don’t Just Act; Act Intelligently
    7. Becoming Courageous
  12. Chapter 7 Staying Present and Being Vigilant
    1. Moving Slow to Move Fast
    2. Being Awake to Your Footprint
    3. Being Present for People
    4. Being Present Takes Courage
    5. Think, Don’t Overthink
    6. The Matrix of Intelligent Leadership
    7. Practicing Presence
    8. Note
  13. Chapter 8 Course Correction
    1. The Psychology of Adjustment
    2. A Culture of Innovation
    3. Don’t Overcorrect
    4. The Ultimate Dimension
    5. Correcting Your Course
  14. Chapter 9 It’s Not About You The Inseparable Relationship Between Leadership and Culture
    1. It Starts at the Top
    2. Encouraging Innovation
    3. Vulnerability Is Contagious
    4. A Culture of Duty
    5. A Culture that Amplifies
    6. Creating A Culture of Courageous Action
    7. Working as One
    8. Correcting Your Collective Course
    9. As You Go, So Go We All
  15. Chapter 10 Conclusion The Paradox of Change
    1. Bringing the New into Being
    2. The Intelligent Leader: A Guided Visualization
    3. What Will Be Your Legacy?
  16. About the Author
  17. Index
  18. End User License Agreement