Robert McMillan - The Next Gen Leader: Cutting Edge Strategies to Make You the Leader You Were Born to Be

Roberts 6G Leadership System is a revelation that everyone has the potential to lead in the right environment. The Next Gen Leader provides systematic strategies and solutions to accelerating the growth and development of emerging and aspiring leaders, resulting in the creation of high performing teams and organizations. This should be required reading for every employee regardless of position, as an invitation to a seat at the leadership table.

Dwight V. McMillan, human resource business partner, Rockwell Automation

Few organizations develop a universal leadership development system for aspiring, emerging, and seasoned leaders, even though it is the largest area of criticality with major implications for many companies. Robert C. McMillans The Next Gen Leader provides a powerful system with practical strategies that will accelerate change. It is an invaluable tool for that critical timesuch transformation.

Brandon Clairmont, vice president of sales, McCormick

The Next Gen Leader

Cutting Edge Strategies to Make You the Leader You Were Born to Be

By Robert C. McMillan

Copyright 2014 by Robert C. McMillan

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THE NEXT GEN LEADER

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

McMillan, Robert C.

The next gen leader : cutting edge strategies to make you the leader you were born to be / by Robert C. McMillan.
pages cm
Includes index.
ISBN 978-1-60163-309-5 -- ISBN 978-1-60163-483-2 (ebook)
1. Leadership. 2. Executive ability. I. Title.

HD57.7.M399165 2014
658.4092--dc23

2013045963

This book is for emerging, aspiring, and executive leaders who want to maximize their potential and become the transformational leaders they were born to be. This book contains the complete system for those professionals, teams, and organizations similar to professional athletes and sport teams who want to better not only themselves, but others and teams around them to win and outperform the competition.

I want you to discover the Genius Leader in you. I want to be the coach you always wanted. I want to tell you that you can make it when others say you cannot or when it looks as though you cant go on. You have within you a well of potential that I want to help you discover and unleash on the world!

Hello, Im Robert, and Im your leadership coach. What if there was a system where both professionals and organizations could experience extraordinary promotion, performance, productivity, and profits simply by maximizing potential congruently?

What if we all knew, in our own way, that we could achieve the impossiblein our personal lives, our place of work, internally and externally. What if we all realized we could reach our personal, career, and organizational dreams by maximizing our potential and discovering the Genius Leader inside each of us?

How would our lives, organizations, and teams be different? Can you envision what that would look like and mean to your career and life?

The truth of the matter is that you control in your mind, heart, and hands the ability to release your genius in leadership by maximizing your potential and releasing it to the world! The Next Gen Leader is the solution that integrates organizational and professional goal congruences, maximizing the leadership potential of every professional through its groundbreaking 6G Leadership System.

For a team or individual to win in any competitive sporting contest, the athletes must be leaders and have the right tools, equipment, and systems to get them there. Whether football, basketball, baseball, soccer, or any sport with or without a ball involved, it is critical that the athletes have the right equipment to realize success as leaders. The same is true in leadership off the field. A leaders success is highly contingent upon having the next generation of tools, equipment, and systems in order to be successful in the business world. Without the necessary tools, systems, and resources, a leader is similar to a talented athlete trying to compete among the best players without the proper equipment; his or her genius gets lost in the chaos.

I will never forget my first year playing collegiate football. It was my freshman year, and I was recruited by Virginia State University, an NCAA Division II athletic program at the time. In high school, I played the running back position and held the rushing record for the most yards per carry. Once I hit the hole, it always took four or more defensive players to bring me down, and often I carried them for 10 yards or more after contact. That is how I earned the nickname Rob Mac. I would either run over or run by people like a runaway MAC truck.

With the hopes of being awarded a scholarship, I accepted the invitation from the head football coach and arrived at camp the summer of 1988. The deciding factor on whether or not I received a scholarship was how well I performed in comparison to the other athletes. After I arrived on campus and settled in the assigned dormitory, I made my way to the stadium for equipment handout for practice that day. As I approached the tunnel heading to the equipment room, I saw a line with more than 100 people. The line was the equipment line, filled with players who were also there for summer football camp. I quickly stepped in line, only to realize I was dead last.

As I stood at the rear of the line, I saw people coming out of the equipment room, heading to the locker room, with shoulder pads, helmets, cleats, etc. Many of them looked perplexed as they entered the adjacent locker to get dressed for practice. After waiting in line for more than an hour, eventually I made it into the equipment room to find shoulder pads that were too big, cleats that were worn with missing spikes, and a helmet that was too small for my head. Trust me, it was so tight I didnt need a chinstrap.

Given that practice began in 30 minutes, I made my way into the locker room and tried to find someone to trade equipment with. I was successful trading the helmet and shoulder pads for ones that fit, but couldnt get anybody to trade cleats.

Running out of time, I began to suit up, putting on the equipment for practice. After putting on everything except the cleats, I reached down and picked them up: each shoe was a different size. Not only were they worn, torn, and missing spikes, now I had to contend with one shoe being a size 9 and the other a size 9.5. I wore a size 10. I reached down and put those cleats on my feet and noticed that they were so worn my feet rolled over outward because the arch support was nonexistent.