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Audiobooks Narrated by Scott Jeffrey Miller
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Most careers unfold accidentally, haphazardly, and with too much serendipity. That means lost traction, lost years, and lost opportunities. But your career doesn't have to be that way! Career on Course unpacks the ten steps that will take your career from accidental to intentional.
Drawing upon insights and best practices from three decades in professional and leadership development, Scott Jeffrey Miller shares his proven process for creating a plan that empowers you to take control of your career. Based on his own successes and failures, and those that he's watched from both high-performing and frustrated professionals, Scott shows you how to
- know your professional values
- develop your long-term plan
- define and build your brand
- and more
The most successful professionals are those who have clarity, have a plan, live in accordance with their values, and know how to pivot in the face of disruption. Whether you're just starting your career or you've found yourself stuck somewhere in the middle, this book will help you get your career on course.
'Owning your mess and being vulnerable makes you an even stronger leader and Scott Miller shows you exactly how.'-Dave Hollis, bestselling author of Get Out of Your Own Way
One man's mistake is another man's lesson. Don't let Scott Miller's success story fool you. He has made and learned from many mistakes in his career. Featuring thirty chapters with challenges like 'A Name is Not a Lead' and 'Hire People Smarter Than You,' Marketing Mess to Brand Success shares a career worth of horrifying mistakes, missteps, and lessons learned. Whether you're starting a new company, a brand manager figuring out the best brand strategy or brand positioning for a niche market, or trying to land your first job as a marketing manager or brand manager, this book is designed to prepare you for many of the inevitable challenges that you will encounter.
Avoid marketing messes and square up to successes. A marketing crash course will not make you a marketing star. But having a better understanding of the role of marketing in business development and making sure you're focused and aligned with the right areas of an organization may. Each chapter inside Marketing Mess to Brand Success features true stories and relevant questions that challenge you to become a better marketing manager.
***A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTELLER***
From the organizational experts at FranklinCovey, an essential guide to becoming the great manager every team deserves.
A practical must-read, FranklinCovey's Everyone Deserves a Great Manager is the essential guide for the millions of people all over the world making the challenging and rewarding leap to manager. Based on nearly a decade of research on what makes managers successful—and includes new ways of thinking, tips and techniques—this volume has been field-tested with hundreds of thousands of managers all over the world.
Organized under four main roles every manager is expected to fill, Everyone Deserves a Great Manager focuses on how to lead yourself, people, teams, and change. Readers can start anywhere and go everywhere with this guide—depending on their current problem or time constraint. They can pick up a helpful tip in ten minutes or glean an entire skillset with deeper reading. The goal is for the busy manager to know what to do and how to do it without interrupting their regular workflow.
Each role highlights the current, authentic problems managers face and briefly explores the limiting mindsets or common mistakes that led to those problems. With skill-based chapters that cover managerial skills like one-on-ones, giving feedback, delegating, hiring, building team culture, and leading remote teams, the book also includes more than thirty unique tools, such as a prep worksheets and a list of behavioral questions for your next interview. An approachable, engaging style using real-world stories, Everyone Deserves a Great Manager provides the blueprint for becoming the great manager every team deserves.
Your Leadership Skills Are About to Change
Readers of Radical Candor, Dare to Lead and Mastering Leadership will love Scott Miller’s Management Mess to Leadership Success.
Rise from Rock Bottom: Scott Miller knows what it’s like to fail. He was demoted from his first leadership position after only three weeks―and that’s just one of several messy management stories in Management Mess to Leadership Success. Scott’s not alone. Everyone fails. But something sets Scott apart: he knows that failure is not a synonym for unwanted retirement.
From Boss to Leader: Scott knows firsthand what it’s like to go from out-of-touch boss to team-growing leader. In Management Mess to Leadership Success, you’ll find 30 leadership challenges, honed by FranklinCovey through years of research, instructional programs, and executive consultancy, and illustrated with real-life experiences shared by someone who’s lived these challenges.
Be a Strategic Maverick: Leaders aren’t hired to maintain the status quo. The whole point of leadership is to create positive (often radical) change. Sometimes, that means watching someone you’ve coached succeed―and maybe even surpass you. Sometimes, it means saying “no” more often than saying “yes.” But always, it means improving yourself and your team in new and unconventional ways. Dare to do the unexpected―dare to lead.
Management Mess to Leadership Success combines the wisdom, expertise, and practical advice of successful leaders with proven methods to make effective changes to your leadership strategies. Learn how to:
Lead difficult conversations and celebrate successInspire trust, actively listen, and challenge paradigmsPut the right people in the right jobsCreate a clear and actionable vision for your teamAccomplish your organization’s Wildly Important GoalsGet the right results―in the right wayDon’t miss out on this upcoming classic from FranklinCovey, the company behind The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
