Episode 150 – Management Mess to Leadership Success with Scott J Miller

The podcast by project manager for project managers. How can you become a leader that people want to follow? Author Scott J. Miller, author of Management Mess to Leadership Success, has a spirited conversation with us about how to change the way you manage yourself, lead others, and achieve a high level of engagement with your project team. It’s never too late to fix our mess and develop leadership success.

Table of Contents

00:45 … 150th Episode Velociteach Discount Offer03:33 … Background to the Book06:23 … Demonstrate Humility11:10 … Listen First18:14 … When Listening Sucks21:25 … Declare Your Intent25:20 … Carry Your Own Weather29:49 … Making Time for Relationships37:11 … Allow Others to be Smart40:55 … Self-Assessing42:51 … Contact Scott44:15 … Closing

SCOTT MILLER:  People are not an organization’s most valuable asset.  People are not a project’s most valuable asset.  Not true.  It’s total bunk.  People are not a company or division’s or platform’s or a project’s most valuable asset.  It’s the relationships between those people.  That is every project, every organization’s most valuable asset. 

WENDY GROUNDS:  You’re listening to Manage This.  My name is Wendy Grounds, and with me in the studio is Bill Yates.  This podcast is about project management.  We call it the podcast by project managers for project managers.

BILL YATES: Wendy, this episode of Manage This marks our 150th episode! Isn’t that amazing!

WENDY GROUNDS: Yes! I’m so excited. We’ve just celebrated our sixth birthday.

150th Episode Velociteach Discount Offer

BILL YATES: Yeah, and now 150 episodes, for Manage This. In honor of this milestone event, Velociteach is offering our podcast listeners an exclusive discount of 20% off. That applies to our live, instructor-led PMP and PMI-ACP exam prep boot camps as well as our self-paced eLearning courses on InSite. This offer will run all week to give our listeners the opportunity to take advantage of this deal.

WENDY GROUNDS: Use the promo code POD150 before midnight EST on Sunday, April 10th to receive this special discount. This offer is only valid on new purchases, public enrollment classes, and individual courses or bundles on InSite. It’s not valid on private group classes or the PDU Passport, our all-access pass to every PDU course online. We hope you’ll take advantage of this offer and celebrate with us, our 150th episode.

BILL YATES:  Absolutely.  We have a platform called InSite that offers mobile learning options, and we partnered with a number of industry experts to create these courses.  And we’ve got the three areas of the talent triangle covered from PMI’s perspective.  So you can just take a look at the different offerings that we have and pick up extra tips and learn how to be a better project manager through that.

WENDY GROUNDS:  Another way to be a better project manager is listening to Scott Miller.  He’s our guest today.  Scott serves as FranklinCovey’s senior advisor on thought leadership, leading the strategy and development of the firm’s speakers bureau, as well as the publication of podcasts, webcasts, and best-selling books.  We’re so excited to talk to Scott.  He actually also has his own podcast called “On Leadership with Scott Miller.”  And he authors a leadership column for Inc.com.

BILL YATES:  Yeah, Scott is going to be a tremendous guest.  We’ve spoken with Kory Kogon before from FranklinCovey, and Kory helped us connect with Scott.  Scott wrote a book called “Management Mess to Leadership Success.”  I mean, how fun is that going to be? 

So one thing I want to point out about the book, it’s one piece that I found really interesting and user friendly was he breaks it into – calls it 30 days, but they’re really 30 mini-chapters.  And we just picked a few of those, and we’re going to go through those with Scott.  In some cases we’ve just got to get him to explain what he means because he’s got some pretty outrageous things that he shares in his...