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Labcast: Hacking Leadership Gaps with Mike Myatt
In this week’s Labcast, leadership advisor and author Mike Myatt shares powerful tips for hacking leadership gaps and giving your company the vision and drive it needs to move forward.
CEOs, here’s a reality check: Rate your leadership ability on a scale of 1–10, 1 being the absolutely worst leader you’ve encountered and 10 being the best. What did you give yourself? Around an 8? The fact is, chances are your employees, on average, will rate you two or three points lower. Now, imagine getting up in the morning and trying to pump yourself up to work for a 5.
The difference between those two perceptions is what Mike Myatt, one of America’s top CEO coaches, calls a leadership gap. And without closing it, you are unlikely to provide your team with the motivation and guidance they need to thrive and succeed.
All isn’t lost, yet. Myatt provides exactly the advice you need to live up to your full leadership potential in his upcoming book, Hacking Leadership: The Eleven Gaps Every Business Needs to Close and the Secrets of Closing them Quickly. Listen in to this week’s Labcast as he shares several insights from the book to help you reassess your management style, focus your vision, and transform your leadership ability from a 5 to a perfect 10.
This Week’s Guest
“When I look at these gaps, what I try to get leaders to understand is that they first and foremost have to really have a very clear, well-articulated, crisp vision. Then they have to align the strategy and the operations around that vision.”
— Mike Myatt, author of Hacking Leadership
Key Takeaways
* Great leaders create relationships with strong independencies [1:47]
* Don’t be a bottleneck leader — build an amazing team you can trust, and then delegate [3:16]
* Build your agenda focused around something other than a pure profit motive [6:35]
* If you focus on your team, culture falls into place [8:44]
* To get rid of leadership gaps, start with a well-articulated vision [12:30]
* If leaders want to create trust they have to hold themselves accountable [14:14]
* Realize people don’t always see you the way you see yourself [16:04]
* Case study: Brian Kibby and McGraw Hill [20:07]
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Labcast-126 Mike Myatt on Hacking Leadership
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Transcript
Jonathan: Welcome to Labcast. This is your host, Jonathan Crowe. This week I’m very excited to have a special guest. With us, we have Mike Myatt. Mike is a leadership adviser to Fortune 500 CEOs and boards of directors. He’s widely regarded as America’s top CEO coach. You may know Mike from his extremely popular Forbes column, Leadership Myths: Busting them One by One. He’s also the author of two books, Leadership Matters: The CEO Survival Manual, and his upcoming book, Hacking Leadership: The Eleven Gaps Every Business Needs to Close ...
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In this week’s Labcast, leadership advisor and author Mike Myatt shares powerful tips for hacking leadership gaps and giving your company the vision and drive it needs to move forward.
CEOs, here’s a reality check: Rate your leadership ability on a scale of 1–10, 1 being the absolutely worst leader you’ve encountered and 10 being the best. What did you give yourself? Around an 8? The fact is, chances are your employees, on average, will rate you two or three points lower. Now, imagine getting up in the morning and trying to pump yourself up to work for a 5.
The difference between those two perceptions is what Mike Myatt, one of America’s top CEO coaches, calls a leadership gap. And without closing it, you are unlikely to provide your team with the motivation and guidance they need to thrive and succeed.
All isn’t lost, yet. Myatt provides exactly the advice you need to live up to your full leadership potential in his upcoming book, Hacking Leadership: The Eleven Gaps Every Business Needs to Close and the Secrets of Closing them Quickly. Listen in to this week’s Labcast as he shares several insights from the book to help you reassess your management style, focus your vision, and transform your leadership ability from a 5 to a perfect 10.
This Week’s Guest
“When I look at these gaps, what I try to get leaders to understand is that they first and foremost have to really have a very clear, well-articulated, crisp vision. Then they have to align the strategy and the operations around that vision.”
— Mike Myatt, author of Hacking Leadership
Key Takeaways
* Great leaders create relationships with strong independencies [1:47]
* Don’t be a bottleneck leader — build an amazing team you can trust, and then delegate [3:16]
* Build your agenda focused around something other than a pure profit motive [6:35]
* If you focus on your team, culture falls into place [8:44]
* To get rid of leadership gaps, start with a well-articulated vision [12:30]
* If leaders want to create trust they have to hold themselves accountable [14:14]
* Realize people don’t always see you the way you see yourself [16:04]
* Case study: Brian Kibby and McGraw Hill [20:07]
Listen
Labcast-126 Mike Myatt on Hacking Leadership
Subscribe to Labcast
Transcript
Jonathan: Welcome to Labcast. This is your host, Jonathan Crowe. This week I’m very excited to have a special guest. With us, we have Mike Myatt. Mike is a leadership adviser to Fortune 500 CEOs and boards of directors. He’s widely regarded as America’s top CEO coach. You may know Mike from his extremely popular Forbes column, Leadership Myths: Busting them One by One. He’s also the author of two books, Leadership Matters: The CEO Survival Manual, and his upcoming book, Hacking Leadership: The Eleven Gaps Every Business Needs to Close ...