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
Foreword xv
Preface: A Demand for Depth xvii
Acknowledgments xxi
Introduction: Do You Have What it Takes to Inspire Others to Follow? xxv
1 Getting to Know Thyself 1
Getting to the Why of Things 2
How Strong is Your Character? 4
Values: Your Criteria for Life 7
Mind the Gaps 10
Who Do You Think You Are? 11
Believe It or Not … 12
The Bridge to the Outer Core 14
Putting It All Together: The Spectrum of Intelligent Leadership 16
Fake It ’til You Make It 18
2 Thinking Differently, Thinking Big 21
Being a Trendsetter 24
Holding a Massive Vision 26
How Big Do You Think? 28
Beginning with the End in Mind 32
Don’t Let Your Big Thinking Give You a Big Head 34
Exercise: Developing Your Core Purpose Statement 36
3 The Vulnerability Decision 39
Making the Choice to Be Vulnerable 41
The Gateway to Change 42
Vulnerability and the Bottom Line 45
Admitting Your Flaws Builds Trust 46
Creating a Culture of Vulnerability 48
Can You Be Too Humble? 51
Practicing Vulnerability 52
4 Having a Mindset of Entitlement versus a Mindset of Duty 55
Seeing Through Your Entitlement 59
The Duty Mindset: Context is Everything 62
From Setback to Opportunity: Overcoming the Victim Mentality 63
The First Three Dimensions: A Package Deal 66
Don’t Forget to Put on Your Own Oxygen Mask First 66
Cultivating a Duty Mindset 68
5 Leveraging Your Gifts and Addressing Your Gaps 71
Mindset Applied 74
The Negativity Bias 75
Mind the Gap 80
Going on to Perfection 82
Striking the Right Balance 83
Zeroing in, Moving Forward 84
6 Having the Courage to Execute with Pride, Passion, and Precision 89
Moving out of Your Comfort Zone 91
Cultivating Courage, in Spite of Resistance 91
The Three Qualities of Courageous Action 92
Change Takes Courage 97
The Ultimate Catalyst 99
Don’t Just Act; Act Intelligently 101
Becoming Courageous 102
7 Staying Present and Being Vigilant 107
Moving Slow to Move Fast 109
Being Awake to Your Footprint 112
Being Present for People 113
Being Present Takes Courage 115
Think, Don’t Overthink 116
The Matrix of Intelligent Leadership 117
Practicing Presence 118
8 Course Correction 123
The Psychology of Adjustment 125
A Culture of Innovation 132
Don’t Overcorrect 134
The Ultimate Dimension 134
Correcting Your Course 135
9 It’s Not About You: The Inseparable Relationship Between Leadership and Culture 139
It Starts at the Top 141
Encouraging Innovation 144
Vulnerability is Contagious 145
A Culture of Duty 146
A Culture that Amplifies 148
Creating a Culture of Courageous Action 149
Working as One 151
Correcting Your Collective Course 152
As You Go, So Go We All 154
10 Conclusion: The Paradox of Change 155
Bringing the New into Being 156
The Intelligent Leader: A Guided Visualization 158
What Will Be Your Legacy? 161
About the Author 163
Index 167
