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The Intelligent Leader: Unlocking the 7 Secrets to Leading Others and Leaving Your Legacy

John Mattone (Goodreads Author)

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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 Stev

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Nov 30, 2020 Aaron Mikulsky rated it really liked it

I enjoyed this very much as it synchs with much of what I learning in life coaching courses. The world today needs leaders who understand the subtle dynamics of the human heart, mind, and soul, starting with their own. Like an iceberg, your inner core is everything in you that lies below the surface, all the “invisible” qualities that anchor your personality and that result in the skills and actions that people see. The greatest leaders are those who are not only deeply aware of their inner terr I enjoyed this very much as it synchs with much of what I learning in life coaching courses. The world today needs leaders who understand the subtle dynamics of the human heart, mind, and soul, starting with their own. Like an iceberg, your inner core is everything in you that lies below the surface, all the “invisible” qualities that anchor your personality and that result in the skills and actions that people see. The greatest leaders are those who are not only deeply aware of their inner terrain but also skilled at accessing it, changing it, and using it to guide and shape their actions in the world. Intelligent Leadership, which is made up of seven dimensions, is the key to unlocking this powerful connection between the inner and the outer, the subjective and the objective, the invisible world below the surface and the visible qualities and capacities that make us great leaders.
The inner core is fundamental to who we are, and yet it is completely invisible to us most of the time. It is the “why” of everything we do. It’s a kind of blueprint, constructed by our upbringing, life choices, and experience, that shapes our lives and determines the kind of person we are. The inner core is broken down into four primary components: your character, your values, your self-concept, and your beliefs.
How strong is your character? Consider who you are when no one else is watching. In what ways do you exhibit strong character? Are there ways in which you are lacking character? Character has six elements: courage, loyalty, diligence, modesty, honesty, and gratitude.
Values: your criteria for life. Dr. Aldo Civico, an executive leadership coach and conflict negotiator, describes values as our “criteria for life.” Our values, especially our deep-seated ones, are the lens through which we see the world. They are at play in every major decision we make.
Who do you think you are? The final components of our inner core are our self-concept and beliefs. These are how our deeper character and values are translated into our outer core behaviors and capabilities. Self-concept is how you think of yourself. Do you consider yourself to be a successful person or a failure? A leader or a follower? Your self-concept will, to a significant degree, shape the kind of person and leader that the world experiences. Beliefs are closely tied to your self-concept. Beliefs are the principles that we know to be true through repeated experience.
These seven dimensions are the gateway that simultaneously gives us access to better understanding our inner core and the amplifiers that help our light to shine more beautifully, vibrantly, and powerfully through our actions.
1. Thinking Differently, Thinking Big - If you really want to become something more, to change, to become something different, it’s inevitable that you’re also going to have to change the way you think. You’ve got to be willing to think differently than you have before, bigger than you have before. This insight is the primary step on the journey of Intelligent Leadership. Consider the following qualities and behaviors that are often associated with thinking differently and thinking big. These are “leading indicators” of how much you embody this dimension of leadership, and are meant to help you measure yourself so you can determine what areas need improvement:
• Setting aside time just to think.
• Remaining open to all potential ideas and opportunities.
• Zeroing in on what is real and actionable.
• Bouncing your ideas off others.
Ask yourself the questions: Why am I here? What was I put on this earth to do? What is the unique gift that I offer to the world?
Developing your core purpose statement - You are surrounded by your loved ones, friends, and the colleagues you have touched along your life’s journey. One by one they lean over to whisper their final words to you. What would each person whisper to you? What difference have you made in their life? What qualities or characteristics will you be remembered for?
2. The vulnerability decision - Vulnerability will make you stronger. It will open you up to new possibilities for yourself and your team that you would never have thought possible. It will build trust among your team members. Opening up intentionally is the vulnerability decision. It’s a conscious choice that you, as a leader, make to humble yourself, invite feedback from others, and search for answers that you don’t already have. Without vulnerability, change isn’t possible. One of the key components of vulnerability is humility, or the acknowledgment that you don’t have all the answers yourself. Take time to reflect; be open to feedback; be proactive.
3. Having a mindset of entitlement versus a mindset of duty – “Enlightened self-interest” is when you focus on your “self”, but your self represents something much bigger. Take pride in others and work backwards by reflecting on your successes and who contributed to them.
4. Leveraging your gifts and addressing your gaps – get a 360 review; ask for go-forward suggestions (GFS); make a plan and keep it simple.
5. Have the courage to execute with pride, passion, and precision - Much of the work in the first four dimensions primarily developed self-awareness. Now, the fifth dimension starts to translate this perspective into action. Just because we plan to do something doesn’t mean that we will. Executing requires courage. Take a vision and actualize it; re-connect with your core purpose; assess and take pride; find and unleash your passion. Passion is giving maximum effort toward something, not because you have to do it but because you want to do it. Passion is the engine that drives courageous action.
6. Staying present and being vigilant - In today’s atmosphere of increased time pressure and information overload, there is a significant premium on leaders who are able to tune out the distractions and stay focused. This capacity is staying present and being vigilant. It is the sixth and perhaps most relevant dimension of Intelligent Leadership. Staying present allows you to be awake to the multidimensional complexity of the situations you’re involved in. Being present in your interactions and relationships with others builds trust and improves communications. The more vigilant you are, the fewer mistakes you’ll make, and the more effective and efficient you’ll become.
7. Course correction - The “psychology of adjustment” has four components: a hunger for constant improvement, seeing clearly, a willingness to pivot, and living outside your comfort zone. Refocus on the present; do what’s right, not what you think is right; surround yourself with honest, courageous people.
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Nov 07, 2020 Rick Yvanovich rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: coaching, leadership, management, mindfulness, relaxation, running-university, self-improvement, talent-management

I listened to this audiobook as part of my running university. It really needs to be followed up with the hard copy so you can highlight and bookmark some of the golden nuggets, a little hard to do when you're running.

I would have preferred Coach John to be the narrator. It's not a criticism to the narrator of this book, its a preference for authors to speak and I've heard John speak!

The seven secrets are great things that leaders and coaches should be aware of. I won't do any spoilers of what t ...more

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John Mattone is the world’s top executive coach and the co-founder of the Intelligent Leadership Executive Coaching (ILEC) Franchise. He is globally respected as a uniquely distinguished top leadership coach authority who can ignite and strengthen a leader’s inner-self and talents, which enables them to realize four “game-changing” outcomes that they can leverage in their business and life: Altrui John Mattone is the world’s top executive coach and the co-founder of the Intelligent Leadership Executive Coaching (ILEC) Franchise. He is globally respected as a uniquely distinguished top leadership coach authority who can ignite and strengthen a leader’s inner-self and talents, which enables them to realize four “game-changing” outcomes that they can leverage in their business and life: Altruism, Affiliation, Achievement, and Abundance (The 4 A’s).

In 2017 and 2018, the research organization Globalgurus.org recognized John as one of the top three coaching authorities in the world alongside Tony Robbins and Marshall Goldsmith and, in 2019 and 2020, Globalgurus.org awarded John Mattone the prestigious world’s #1 coaching authority ranking. He was also named as one of eight finalists for the prestigious 2017 Thinkers50 Leadership Award recognizing the world’s top leadership authority and thinker. In 2013, John was awarded the coveted Master Corporate Executive Coach (MCEC) certification from the Association of Corporate Executive Coaches. He was then honored with the prestigious 2015 International Executive Coach Thought Leader of Distinction Award, in recognition of his thought leadership and his work as a global leadership coach. With the award, he received an honorary lifetime MCEC, becoming one of only four global executive coaches who currently hold this certification. Since June 2017, John’s executive coaching blog has continued to be ranked the #1 executive coaching blog in the world by Feedspot. His leadership blog, likewise, is recognized as one of the best in the world.

Since re-launching his business in 2010, after 15 years of corporate life, John Mattone has been on a mission to help leaders, future leaders and organizations break through to become the best they can be. Perhaps the greatest testimony to John’s core purpose and the realization of his dream are his many philanthropic endeavors which include his creating an endowed scholarship fund in his name at the University of Central Florida where John graduated in 1980 first in his class with an MS in Industrial/Organizational Psychology–The John Mattone Leadership & Coaching Scholarship that will be awarded annually to a deserving Master’s or Ph.D. student who shows great promise and potential in the field of coaching and leadership.

John is the author of ten books, including four best-sellers: Talent Leadership (Harper-Collins, 2012-an Amazon Best-Seller), Intelligent Leadership (Harper-Collins, 2013-an Inc. Magazine and Amazon Best-Seller) and Cultural Transformations: Lessons of Leadership & Corporate Reinvention (Wiley, 2016), an Amazon #1 Best-Selling release in Human Resources and #2 in Management as well as an Inc. Magazine Best-Seller. His new release, The Intelligent Leader: Unlocking the 7 Secrets to Leading Others and Leaving Your Legacy (Wiley, 2019-an Amazon Best-Seller) has been recognized by Bookauthority.org as the #2 management book to read in 2020 and the #49 best leadership book of all time. ...more