The Next Gen Leader: Cutting Edge Strategies to Make You the Leader You Were Born to Be - Softcover

McMillan, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1601633092 ISBN 13: 9781601633095

Verlag: CAREER PR, 2014

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While today's global economy is experiencing a significant cycle of outsourcing across industries, leadership cannot be outsourced; it must be organically transformed. <i>The Next Gen Leader</i> will show you how to discard outworn traditions and become the next-generation leader you were born to be! It is a system designed to help you maximize individual, team, and organizational leadership potential, regardless of your position, pay, or power.<br><br><i>The Next Gen Leader</i> will introduce you to:<br><li>Assessments to identify and master leadership networks and styles.<br></li><li>Leadership traits, features, and profiles to maximize individual, team, and organizational success.<br></li><li>Secrets to increase performance, value, and productivity, leading to advancement, promotion, and increased pay.<br></li><li>Coaching exercises to accelerate and measure progress, performance,and results.</li>

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<div> Robert C. McMillan is one of the world's foremost thought leaders and experts on leadership transformational systems. Personally trained by leadership guru John C. Maxwell, Robert's solutions are rooted in two decades of leadership experience in corporate America, which includes a journey from rank-and-file to the C-suite as an executive for a health insurance company serving the President of the United States, Congress, White House staff, and millions of federal employees. His clients have included Motorola, BlueCross BlueShield and General Electric. Robert is the founder of the Next Gen Leader Institute and is a speaker, consultant, and coach to organizations and professionals around the world. Robert lives in the Washington, DC, area with his wife, Yolanda, and their two children, Journee and Jalen. </div>

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The Next Gen Leader

Cutting Edge Strategies to Make You the Leader You Were Born to Be

By Robert C. McMillan

Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC

Copyright © 2014 Robert C. McMillan
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-60163-309-5

Contents

Introduction: A Genius in the Making, 
Part 1: The 6G Leadership System, 
You Are a Leader!, 
Overview of the 6G Leadership System, 
What's My Leadership Aptitude?, 
Part 2: You Were Born to Lead!, 
The Truth About Leadership, 
Let's Talk Potential, 
Leadership Is All About Connecting, 
Circle of Life Apps, 
Stepping Into Leadership Shoes, 
Part 3: The Six Generations of Leadership, 
1G–Genetic Leader and the Awareness App, 
2G–Generic Leader and the Acceptance App, 
3G–Go-To Leader and the Acknowledgement App, 
4G–Growth Leader and the Achievement App, 
5G–Gateway Leader and the Acceleration App, 
6G–Genius Leader and the Agility App, 
Take the Genius Leader Challenge, 
Index, 
About the Author, 

CHAPTER 1

You Are a Leader!

Believe it or not, if you are reading this book, you are a leader, regardless of position, pay, or power. You are a leader; there is no doubt about it! Here is what I know: Each of us falls within the 1G to 6G leadership networks (similar to cell phone and iPad networks). We all are born with leadership hardware and software, but we require constant maintenance and application upgrades in order to operate at our maximum leadership potential. With that visual in mind, and understanding that everybody is a leader, there are five critical questions that every professional, team member, individual contributor, supervisor, manager, director, and officer within an organization must ask:

• What kind of leader am I?

• How do I become a leader of High Significance?

• How can I upgrade my leadership hardware and software?

• Do I understand others' leadership expectations of me?

• What is my true leadership potential?

The Next Gen Leader: Cutting Edge Strategies to Make You the Leader You Were Born to Be was designed to answer those complicated leadership questions and to provide a leadership system to help organizations, teams, and individuals maximize leadership potential. Centuries of research have shown that the concept of leadership has been one of the most misunderstood yet most critical capability gaps in business. However, once the true meaning of leadership is discovered and a universal system is adopted to grow and nurture leaders, the potential for individual, team, and organizational success is limitless.

The concept of leadership sounds simple yet is complex. The challenge is that each organization, team, supervisor, and employee has its own unique definition and description of the term "leadership," which makes it a complicated concept to define, measure, and evaluate. For more than two decades, I've been in the business of helping professionals, teams, and organizations become better leaders. That's my passion, my sweet tooth: helping others reach their maximum potential.

Through the years of consulting, training, coaching, and working in leadership and individual contributor capacities for Fortune 500 companies (General Electric, Motorola, BP, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and many others), I've observed and profiled the traits and characteristics of successful professionals and leaders in various roles — from project managers, individual contributors, analysts, team leads, supervisors, directors, executives, and C-level executives. I have also held leadership positions in challenging organizations and worked alongside difficult people who operated in negative cultures, resulting in self-created titles many people carried on their foreheads (along with their title Chief of CYA — Chief of Cover Your Ass). To help leaders and aspiring leaders looking to maximize their potential, this book also sets out to provide solutions to the negative aspects of leadership and its unfortunate challenges in dealing with difficult people, organizations, and teams.

Leadership Is Action, Not Position

The fact of the matter is, regardless of position, title, or appointment, we are all leaders. We are naturally born to lead. The successful professionals I observed used what I later refer to as the Six Secret Leadership Applications, which I will share with you in this book. I have applied these concepts and credit them with much of my success in reaching the C suite as the youngest executive within the world's largest healthcare conglomeration. Through the use of these applications, it is clear that it is not position, pay, or power that produces leadership results; it is action that results in leadership. Bottom line, as I always say, "Leadership is action, not position."

What Really Is Leadership Anyway?

The concept of leadership — an excessively used word to describe a desired action — is one of the most misunderstood yet most critical capabilities required in business. Each person, team, organization, and culture has its own unique definition and description of this term, which makes it a complicated concept to define, measure, and evaluate in comparison to the goals and objectives of teams, organizations, and individual contributors. Let's consider a few illustrative questions:

• How do you rate leadership? Leadership success cannot be solely determined based on achieved business goals and objectives noted on an organizational scorecard describing desired results. For example, one may be able to achieve goals and objectives while demonstrating poor leadership. Many organizations make the error of judging leadership solely on achieving business goals and objectives, often creating casualties resulting from the behaviors used to meet those goals.

• How does one know leadership when they see it? Can you take a picture of leadership with your iPhone? If I were to ask you to go find leadership and bring it back, what would you return with? Most people believe that you cannot see, hear, touch, taste, or smell leadership because it is not a person, place, or thing. I am of the opposite belief. I believe you can always find leadership; it is both an action and a thing that can be found in people. Leadership is a network of applications embedded in each of us, which I call the 6G Leadership System.

• Can anyone be a leader? Many thought leaders who embrace the traditional view of leadership would suggest that everyone is not a leader and that leadership is merely a vertical climb concept. They envision a climb up an imaginary corporate ladder in which one steps from one level to the next, eventually elevating to greater responsibilities and oversight and never revisiting the previous "steps" or "roles" they've climbed to reach their desired level of success. If this view on leadership was truly proven, tried, and tested, leaders would never fall, would they? The truth of the matter is just the opposite; under this concept, many leaders have fallen quickly. Because this concept lacks footing and balance, it is unsustainable with the constant motion of leadership. Throughout history we have seen leaders fall on their own sword. Leadership is not a vertical climb; it is a horizontal pull in the format of a network constantly rotating like the earth — the 6G Leadership System.

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Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: CAREER PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1601633092
• ISBN 13: 9781601633095
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
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