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The Mentally Strong Leader
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The Mentally Strong Leader

Build the Habits to Productively Regulate Your Emotions, Thoughts, and Behaviors

Scott Mautz
Peakpoint Press, 2024
First Edition: 2024
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Former P&G senior executive Scott Mautz, the author of Leading from the Middle, explains how building your mental strength – manifested through your fortitude, confidence, boldness, decisiveness, collaboration, and focus on your goals – makes you a strong leader. He advises becoming intentional about how you think, feel, and act, and offers more than 50 specific tools you can use to develop habits along those lines that will make you a more effective leader. He provides welcome advice for each tool, including how to take the first step and how to get back on track if you make a wrong turn.

Summary

Strengthen your mind to grow from a good leader to a great leader.

Mentally strong leaders control their behavior, thoughts, and emotions to build their self-discipline, confidence, decisiveness, and intention so they can meet the challenges of leading. The behavioral markers that demonstrate their mental strength include fortitude, boldness, goal-oriented focus, and the ability to motivate people with their message.

Cultivating mental strength helps you think big, stay positive, make wise choices, accomplish substantive goals, and overcome difficulties and failure. As with physical strength, you can boost your mental strength with the right tools and effort. Your mental strength also naturally increases as you mature.

Build fortitude so you can withstand adversity.

Here are several ways to accomplish this goal.

  • To increase your fortitude, stay disciplined and change the way you think about challenges – Fortitude requires learning to tolerate tedium, work under pressure, confront trouble, plan for difficulties, avoid thinking like a victim, encourage disagreement, and take on hard conversations.
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About the Author

Former P&G senior executive Scott Mautz is a speaker, trainer, and LinkedIn Learning instructor.  He is also the author of Leading from the Middle, Find the Fire, and Make It Matter.

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