Mattone - Intelligent leadership what you need to know to unlock your full potential

INTELLIGENT
LEADERSHIP

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TO UNLOCK
YOUR FULL POTENTIAL

JOHN MATTONE

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Mattone, John.

Intelligent leadership: what you need to know to unlock your full

potential / John Mattone.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN-13: 978-0-8144-3237-2

ISBN-10: 0-8144-3237-9

1. Leadership. 2. Executive ability. I. Title.

HD57.7.M3537 2013

658.4092dc23

2012040459

2013 John Mattone.

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by Marshall Goldsmith

BY JOHN MATTONE

With Intelligent Leadership, John Mattone taps into his years of experience to help leaders become the best leaders they can be. This work is a valiant effort toward that cause! Based on his Map of Leadership Maturity, John focuses on integrating a leaders inner strength and outer competencies as the key to leadership success even in todays environment of enormous challenge and global change.

John understands that ultimately leaders actions say much more to employees and customers about their leadership skills than mere words ever can. Companies have wasted millions of dollars and countless hours agonizing over the wording of statements that are inscribed on plaques and hung over office watercoolers. These pronouncements, however, do not change peoples behavior. Companies that do the best job of living up to their values and developing ethical employees, including managers, recognize that the real cause of successor failureis always the people, not the words.

John provides three unique tools for leaders who want to unleash their potential: his Wheel of Intelligent Leadership, his Map of Leadership Maturity (The Map), and the Leadership Enneagram Inventory. Using these tools, leaders learn about their own personality style and leadership maturity level, as well as how to lead people of different style types. These tools will help leaders who want to unlock their potential!

As you embark on your leadership journey, one bit of advice: Change is hard. It often takes longer than you think, and it can be difficult. Dont just read Johns book; put it into practice. Pick up the tools he offers, and take personal ownership of your success. Remember, real change is not a one-time thing, and it requires real effort. Being an authentic leader, both inside and out, is a lifetime pursuit!

Life is good.

Marshall Goldsmith

Marshall Goldsmith was recently recognized as the worlds most influential leadership thinker in the biannual Thinkers50 study, sponsored by the Harvard Business Review. His 31 books include the New York Times bestsellers MOJO and What Got You Here Wont Get You There.

This book was truly a team effort. I want to thank my incredible wife of 34 years, Gayle, who has stood by me every step of the way. Gayle is the most courageous individual I have ever known. She is a two-time breast cancer survivor who never gave up on life and who persevered and continues to persevere to help others through her work as a registered nurse. Gayle is a remarkable role model for our entire family. Gayle, I love you.

Our four childrenJared, 30; Nick, 27; Kristina, 23; and Matt, 20your love is my strength. I love you. I want to thank my father-in-law, Mr. Bill OHalloran, for his many years of support and love and for giving me the gift of his daughter Gayle. I want to thank my late parents, Dominic and Jane Mattone, and my late mother-in-law, Jean OHalloran, who I know looks down on me and my family. I want to thank by brothers-in-law, Dr. John OHalloran, a truly gifted sports medicine expert, Michael OHalloran, a talented professor of management at Bentley University, and Paul OHalloran, one of the top high school basketball coaches in America. More than anything, these men are great fathers and husbands. We go forward every day with character, conviction, and confidence beneath our wings.

I want to thank all my clients and participants who have attended my speeches and programs and those whom I have had the privilege to coach throughout the years. I have learned so much from you, and I want to thank you for your contributions to this book. I especially want to thank Jan Jones from Jan Jones Worldwide Speakers Bureau, who is my friend and manager. I must thank my good friends Jill Gallagher, Rich Longhurst, and Steve Anastasio from Navy Federal Credit Unionthanks for everything. Special thanks also to Bill Logue, CEO of FedEx Freight, and to Sheila Harrell, Vice President, Customer Service Operations, FedEx TechConnect, both of whom are close friends and incredible business leaders. I want to thank Steve Francis, Charl Butler, and the entire team at AgFirst Farm Credit Bank for being great friends and colleagues. I also have to thank John Plunkett from Cobb Energy and Melanie Polonofsky from BASF.

Thanks go to my close friends and business partnersBonnie Hagemann, CEO; Annette White-Klososky, partner; and Dawn Ciarlone, Director of Operations of Executive Development Associates and the entire EDA team; Jim Higgins, Ron Gross, Carla Higgins, and the entire Mercer consulting team; Cabot Jaffee Sr., Cabot Jaffee, and Glen Jaffee from AlignMark; Vegar Wiik, Sybil Alfred, Natalya Sabga, Debra Delach-Dodd, and the entire team from Florida Atlantic Universitys Executive Education Department; Elaine Eisenman and Joe Weintraub from Babson Colleges Executive Education team; Tony Colao, founder of MasterMedia Speakers Bureau; and especially Berthony Poux, Mark Goldberg, Morsell Allison, and the entire Talent Management Alliance team. I want to extend special thanks to Des Dearlove and Stuart Crainer from the Thinkers50 for their belief in me and my work. Thanks go to Dan Hoeyer, CEO of Business Educators, for his support. And, of course, I want to thank all our speaker bureau partners for their support as well. Thanks are due to all my executive MBA students at Florida Atlantic University. I want to extend a special thank-you to my good friend and personal coach, Linda Mattia Potts, who has given me many gifts along the way, but the ones I most cherish are her honesty, wisdom, and inspiration.