Smart Leadership by Mark Miller Summary
Overview of Smart Leadership
In "Smart Leadership," Chick-fil-A VP Mark Miller reveals four game-changing choices that rescue leaders from decision paralysis. With principles embraced by Google and Disney, this million-copy bestseller asks: Why do smart leaders thrive while others sink in quicksand? Your impact awaits.
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When Promotion Becomes Quicksand
You've finally earned that leadership role you've worked toward for years. Then reality hits: your calendar explodes with back-to-back meetings, your inbox multiplies overnight, and you're missing your kid's soccer games while responding to "urgent" emails at 10 PM. Sound familiar? This isn't just poor time management-it's what happens when individual contributors become leaders without realizing the game has completely changed. The skills that got you promoted won't sustain you in this new terrain. Most leaders never escape this trap. They simply learn to "swim in quicksand," accepting overwhelm as the price of leadership. But here's the truth: your choices, not your circumstances, determine whether you drown or thrive. Leadership quicksand is deceptively simple: it's the overwhelming complexity of modern organizational life that suffocates your impact. CEOs average 37 meetings weekly, consuming 72% of their time. Add 94 daily texts, hundreds of emails, and interruptions every three minutes that require over 20 minutes to recover from, and you've got a recipe for paralysis. Success itself becomes an obstacle-the very achievements that elevated you now anchor you to outdated approaches. Mix in complacency, fear, fatigue, and circumstances beyond your control, and the quicksand thickens. But here's what matters: while these external pressures create the quicksand, how you respond determines your fate. The villain isn't your calendar or your inbox. It's the absence of strategic choice-making. Every human possesses one fundamental superpower that can change everything: the power to choose. The question is whether you're wielding it wisely.
The Architecture of Smart Choices
Confronting Reality and Knowing Yourself
Building Capacity Through Time and Margin
Energy as Multidimensional Leadership Fuel
Fueling Curiosity to Maintain Relevance
Creating Change and Shaping Tomorrow
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"BeFreed turned my commute into learning time. 20-min podcasts are perfect for finishing books I never had time for."
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