A summary of things you should know about Winning The Long Game according to Steven Krupp: Introduction In this episode Steven Krupp takes a deep dive into his book, WinningRead More
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]]>In this episode Steven Krupp takes a deep dive into his book, Winning The Long Game, where he profiles the strategic leadership tactics of very successful and well-known business leaders.
In his book, Steven takes a creates vivid insights into the leadership discipline by contrasting successful leaders such as Elon Musk, Richard Branson, Oprah Winfrey, and Pope Francis with others who are either mediocre or outright failures. The goal of the book is to teach you how to develop the discipline of strategic leadership in a world of growing uncertainty.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurial managers seeking to become more strategic in order to create sustainable value and inspirational fuel to keep their business running.
I think what makes it different is that we are really looking at the intersection of strategy and leadership. There are countless books on strategy and quite a few on leadership but very few that really look at that intersection. Another way that makes this book different is that we have taken this fuzzy idea of strategic leadership and thinking and we’ve turned it into very concrete tangible behaviors. We also give very specific tools and techniques that leaders can take to become more strategic.
This book can be read from front to back or you can jump in and out as needed.
The big takeaway for me is that everyone can be strategic. There are tips and tools that we can all use to look out further, to challenge assumptions, to make more sense of the data around us, that each of us can apply every day.
One of the things that is interesting about the book is that we start with a story about a fictitious character named Jane. Jane is in the middle of a performance review and has got a lot of positive feedback at the beginning of her review. But then the interview takes a strange turn and Jane learns that she has got some issues and her boss tells her that she’s not strategic enough. The premise of the book is how Jane can become more strategic.
After the opening chapter the book is organized around six disciplines you’ll need. The six disciplines are anticipate, challenge, interpret, decide, align, and learn. The discipline of anticipation is about being able to see sooner and scan wider. In this chapter we give successful stories of different people who have anticipated well and also stories of ones who haven’t.
The next chapter we talk about the discipline of challenge and we start with an unlikely leader for a business book which is Pope Francis. Pope Francis practices two components that we think are the essence of the challenge discipline. He opens the window to let in fresh thinking, fresh ideas, and fresh points of view.
The third discipline is interpretation and that’s about amplifying signals and connecting dots between them.
The next discipline we get into is decisions. There are two things that we think are critical for deciding. One is exploring your options and making sure you don’t rush into a decision and the other important thing is having the courage to make tough choices.
The fifth disciple and the next chapter is about align and that’s really about how to rally people together so that they are on board with you. And also how to bridge differences because there will be miss alignment and competing issues to deal with.
The sixth and final discipline chapter is about the learn discipline which is about experimenting, trying new things, and then diving deep to learn from those.
We bring it all together around one very well-known leader Nelson Mandela. We should how Nelson applies all these six disciplines in his vision of transformation in South Africa.
At the end of each chapter we take a step back and ask ourselves what Jane would do in each of these situations. We give very practical tips, tools, and techniques that people can use to get better at any or all of these disciplines.
“My gift was not knowing.” – Sara Blakely
I am currently the CEO of Decision Strategies International. I have professionally been a psychologist and did a lot of work throughout my career helping organizations become more effective. I have a wife, three kids, and a number of animals.
There are a couple of sources of inspiration. About five years ago I was doing a lot of work with boards on CEO and top executive succession and the issue that came up over and over again was that leaders are going to need to be more strategic. However, having heard that over and over again, what I also learned was that very few people had much of a definition of what it meant to be more strategic. They didn’t have a clear guideline of what that is, how to define it, how to access it, and how to develop it. So the lack of definition and clarity around building this capability combined with the great need were the two sources of inspiration for writing this book.
Abundance by Steven Kotler and Peter Diamandis
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]]>A summary of things you should know about The Millionaire Master Plan according to Roger Hamilton Introduction In this episode Roger J Hamilton shares his book The Millionaire Master PlanRead More
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]]>In this episode Roger J Hamilton shares his book The Millionaire Master Plan in order to help entrepreneurs evaluate their personalized path to financial success. This book is perfect for the business person searching for key insights and real tips on how to advance to the next level in becoming rich. Hamilton lays out his plan in nine color-coded and easy-to-read steps that range from near poverty to high-end wealth.
The first thing is we have is natural pathways which are different from each other. For example someone like Richard Branson has taken a totally different path than someone like Warren Buffett. What makes this book different is you actually take an assessment to find out exactly which level you are at right now so that you then have a very clear direction to sort through all the information to figure out for yourself.
The first couple of chapters are critical to understanding exactly where you are. We are living in a world today of way too much information so no matter who the author is, it’s understanding that you know where you are right now that is critical. And from there you can jump to whatever specific chapter you need to see what the next steps are for you.
The one concept I would want the reader to take away is to be very, very clear that we have gone from this world of too much information to one where clarity of direction is absolutely critical. So there is no point going out trying to collect any more information from the internet, news or book until you are very clear where you are and where you want to go. The moment you get that precise in your thinking, is a moment that people all around you can help you and the moment that you start selecting precisely what you should be looking at.
The first chapter, which is called your natural path, I ask what your natural genius is and break it down into the four types. After that you take an assessment online and it allows you to see exactly which one you are.
The next part of this first section is the nine levels that you go through that then allows you to break down the rest of the book.
The nine levels are broken up into three different spectrums that have three levels in each one. The nine levels are intro-red, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet and ultra violet. Each level is color-coded so that it is easy to understand and apply.
This book gives a map which allows the reader to negate exactly where they need to go and what they need to be doing.
“We’re are all born a genius but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it’ll live his whole life believing its stupid.” – Roger James Hamilton
“It’s not about multiple streams but multiple teams.” – Roger James Hamilton
I am an entrepreneur based in Bali Indonesia where I have an entrepreneur resort that we run. I also have a number of profiling tools that was set up for entrepreneurs including Wealth Dynamics which has become the #1 in the world.
One of the biggest things that I have learned in entrepreneurship is there has been no clear map that suites everyone and I wanted to make sure that was exposed.
The Hero’s Journey by Joseph Campbell
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