Coaching for Leaders

750: Six Questions Every Leader Should Ask Themselves, with Margaret Andrews

Listen Later
Margaret Andrews: Manage Yourself to Lead Others

Margaret Andrews is a seasoned executive, academic leader, speaker, and instructor. Her course MYLO (Manage Yourself to Lead Others) has become the most popular professional development program at Harvard. She is the author of Manage Yourself to Lead Others: Why Great Leadership Begins with Self-Understanding (Amazon, Bookshop)*.

Virtually every book, course, and program on leadership begins with self-understanding. That’s no accident; it’s because managing ourselves helps us lead others more effectively. In this episode, Margaret and I explore the six key questions that will help you manage yourself better.

Key Points
  • When people are asked to describe the attributes of their best bosses, 85% of the responses highlight interpersonal skills.
  • Our differences are our features, not our flaws. Knowing yourself well helps you lead others better.

    • Six Questions for Self-Understanding:

    1. Who, and whose thinking, has shaped you as an individual?
    2. What situations and events have helped shape your perspective?
    3. What does success look like for you?
    4. What are your core values, and how have these values changed throughout your life?
    5. To what extent are you aware of—and allow yourself to feel—your emotions?
    6. What feedback have you received over the years about how your actions and behaviors impact others?
      7. Resources Mentioned
      • Manage Yourself to Lead Others: Why Great Leadership Begins with Self-Understanding by Margaret Andrews (Amazon, Bookshop)*
        • Interview Notes

        Download my interview notes in PDF format (free membership required).

        Related Episodes
        • Enhance Your Self-Awareness, with Daniel Goleman (episode 353)
        • The Way to Be More Self-Aware, with Tasha Eurich (episode 442)
        • Discover Who You Are, with Hortense le Gentil (episode 459)
          • Discover More

          Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic. To accelerate your learning, uncover more inside Coaching for Leaders Plus.

          ...more
          View all episodesView all episodes
          Download on the App Store
          Coaching for LeadersBy Dave Stachowiak
          • 4.8
          • 4.8
          • 4.8
          • 4.8
          • 4.8

          4.8

          1,391 ratings

          More shows like Coaching for Leaders

          View all
          The Look & Sound of Leadership by Essential Communications - Tom Henschel

          The Look & Sound of Leadership

          1,163 Listeners

          Teaching in Higher Ed by Bonni Stachowiak

          Teaching in Higher Ed

          368 Listeners

          HBR IdeaCast by Harvard Business Review

          HBR IdeaCast

          168 Listeners

          How to Be Awesome at Your Job by How to be Awesome at Your Job

          How to Be Awesome at Your Job

          1,030 Listeners

          7 Minute Leadership by Paul Falavolito

          7 Minute Leadership

          93 Listeners

          Worklife with Adam Grant by TED

          Worklife with Adam Grant

          9,163 Listeners

          Speak Up: Develop Your Executive Presence & Leadership Communication Style by Laura Camacho

          Speak Up: Develop Your Executive Presence & Leadership Communication Style

          97 Listeners

          Maxwell Leadership Executive Podcast by John Maxwell

          Maxwell Leadership Executive Podcast

          379 Listeners

          The Modern Manager by Mamie Kanfer Stewart

          The Modern Manager

          187 Listeners

          Inside the Strategy Room by McKinsey & Company

          Inside the Strategy Room

          167 Listeners

          No Bullsh!t Leadership by Martin G Moore

          No Bullsh!t Leadership

          124 Listeners

          The Anxious Achiever by Morra Aarons-Mele

          The Anxious Achiever

          572 Listeners

          A Bit of Optimism by Simon Sinek

          A Bit of Optimism

          2,204 Listeners

          Coaching Real Leaders by Harvard Business Review / Muriel Wilkins

          Coaching Real Leaders

          676 Listeners

          HBR On Strategy by Harvard Business Review

          HBR On Strategy

          81 Listeners

          HBR On Leadership by Harvard Business Review

          HBR On Leadership

          169 Listeners