Management Mess to Leadership Success
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Management Mess to Leadership Success

30 Challenges to Become the Leader You Would Follow (Wall Street Journal Best Selling Author, Leadership Mentoring & Coaching)

By Scott Jeffrey Miller

Take The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People to an Entirely New Level with this Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author

"With laugh-out-loud humor and unconventional wisdom, 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

Winner of Bookpal's 2019 Outstanding Works of Literature (O.W.L) award in Leadership! Forbes Holiday Wish List.

Your Leadership Skills Are About to Change. Millions have read the all-time global best seller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey. Both leaders and individuals have been inspired and transformed by its universal principles of effectiveness, including Scott Jeffrey Miller.

Scott 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 on his two-decade journey to leadership success. Everyone fails. But something sets Scott apart: transparency and willingness to openly share his story in a way that is forthright, relatable, and applicable.

You can become a better leader. In Miller’s Management Mess to Leadership Success you’ll find 30 leadership challenges that can, when applied, change the way you manage yourself, lead others, and produce results. The wisdom in Scott’s book was learned through hard knocks and was honed by Stephen R. Covey and the FranklinCovey team through years of research and corporate training experience.

Learn to:

  • Lead difficult conversations, celebrate success
  • Inspire trust, actively listen, challenge paradigms
  • Put the right people in the right roles
  • Create a clear and actionable team vision
  • Get the right results―in the right way

Fans of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People who have read and liked Radical CandorDare to Lead, or Mastering Leadership will love Scott Miller’s Management Mess to Leadership Success.

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