YOUR COACH (IN A BOOK)
Mastering the Trickiest Leadership, Business, and
Career Challenges You Will Ever Face
Free Download of Chapter Two: Declare an Impossible Future – Capture People’s Imagination
Coaching is one of the most powerful and effective ways for leaders to develop and improve their performance. Yet working one-on-one with a coach is not always possible. If you want the experience of masterful coaching, Your Coach (In a Book) provides a time-efficient and affordable solution.
Imagine being a fly on the wall, a privileged observer to conversations of a masterful coach and a leader as they address some of the most perplexing issues and dilemmas that leaders face as they strive to maintain a competitive edge in a changing world.
As you read the book, Robert Hargrove will engage you in a “coaching conversation” about your most important goals, pivotal decisions, bothersome issues, and dilemmas.
Your Coach (In A Book) simulates the experience of working with a personal coach, drawing on thousands of hours of coaching conversations. It is designed to help you master your trickiest leadership, business, and career challenges. It gives you insights into setting aspirational goals, mastering the corporate chessboard, and creating new openings for action where you are stuck or ineffective.
Table of Contents
1. What’s the Opportunity in Coaching for You?
PART I. YOUR EXTRAORDINARY BUSINESS CHALLENGE
2. Declare an Impossible Future—Capture People’s Imagination
3. Facing Reality—Identify What’s Missing that, if Provided, Will Produce a Breakthrough
4. Create a Source Document—Vision, Major Milestones, Key Initiatives, Guiding Principles, and Methodologies
5. Get Everyone to Formulate a Significant Business Challenge—Create Line of Sight to Your Strategic Goals
6. Desperate to Break Out of the No Growth Morass?—Blow Up Your Business Model Versus Tinker at the Margins
7. Looking to Get a Chunk of Capital at Your Next Board Meeting?—The Best Presentation is the One You Never Make
8. Create Customers Who Brag About You—Shift from a “Me” Point of View to a “You” Point of View
PART II. YOUR EXTRAORDINARY LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE
9. Be an Extraordinary Leader—The Winning Strategy that Got You Here May Not Take You Where You Want to Go
10. Stand for Something!—Leadership Arises in Discovering Yourself as the Stand that You Take
11. Get Your Grand Design Over The Line—Vision Is Not Enough! Execute on Your Source Document Until It Exists Independent of You
12. Become a Master Politician—The Art of Politics for Non-Politicians
13. Lateral Leadership: How to Lead When You Are Not in Charge—Build Coalitions that Increase Support and Diminish Opposition
14. Take a Stand for an ‘A’ Player in Every Job—Coach ‘B’s, Re-deploy or Release Chronic ‘C’s
15. Stop Being A Victim of Your Calendar—Start Focusing on What Makes a Difference, Not What’s Merely Important or Trivial
16. Get Ready for Big Meetings Like a Championship Game—Focus on Who You Need to Be and What You Need to Do
PART III. YOUR EXTRAORDINARY CAREER CHALLENGE
17. Do You Have a Burning Ambition?— Seize the Crown, Stop Being a Good Soldier in the Long March of History
18. Network to Match Your Ambition—Power Comes Not From Your Position, But From How Connected You Are
19. Sourcing a Powerful Relationship With Your Boss—The Art of Managing Up to Get Ahead
20. Create an Extraordinary Career in a Turbulent World—Go for Mastery, Not Competence
21. Dealing with Derailers—Shine Your Light, Manage Your Darker Side
22. There is a Conversation Out There About You That’s a Career Wrecker—Publicly Acknowledge It, Take Responsibility for It, Campaign to Change It
23. Beat Burnout—Get to the Source of Frustration First, Then Deal with the Overload
24. Fed Up with Your Job? Take the Go to American Attitude and Get Out—Write a Resume that’s a ticket to a New and Better Universe