Dr. Jay Conger - The High Potential's Advantage

10/12/20 • 42 min

Practical Wisdom for Leaders with Scott J. Allen, Ph.D.

Dr. Jay Conger holds the Henry R. Kravis Chaired Professor of Leadership Studies at Claremont McKenna College. As an executive educator, coach, and program designer, he has worked with over five hundred organizations in his twenty-five year career. An outstanding teacher, Financial Times and other business periodicals ranked him as one of the world’s top management educators. He works with individuals and organizations to create unique learning environments that accelerate and celebrate the potential of leaders.
Quotes From This Episode

“Situation setting is your ability to be very observant and read your boss quickly.”
“There are going to be two or three high-visibility projects that the boss will be assessed on. So the subordinate (i.e., the potentially high potential) makes certain to contribute in a significant way to those two or three outcomes.”
“Bosses have a couple of stylistic imperatives which they may not articulate to you.”
“So in the first 30 to 90 days, your new boss has already assessed you - 'are you meeting my style?'"

Books By Jay Conger

The High Potential’s Advantage: Get Noticed, Impress Your Bosses, and Become a Top Leader by Jay A. Conger and Allan Church
The Necessary Art of Persuasion by Jay A. Conger
Learning to Lead: The Art of Transforming Managers Into Leaders by Jay A. Conger
Charismatic Leadership: The Elusive Factor in Organizational Effectiveness by Jay A. Conger and Rabindra N. Kanungo
Growing Your Company’s Leaders: How Great Organizations Use Succession Management to Sustain Competitive Advantage Hardcover by Robert M. Fulmer and Jay A. Conger

Books Mentioned in This Episode

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake

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“Situation setting is your ability to be very observant and read your boss quickly.”
“There are going to be two or three high-visibility projects that the boss will be assessed on. So the subordinate (i.e., the potentially high potential) makes certain to contribute in a significant way to those two or three outcomes.”
“Bosses have a couple of stylistic imperatives which they may not articulate to you.”
“So in the first 30 to 90 days, your new boss has already assessed you - 'are you meeting my style?'"

Books By Jay Conger

The High Potential’s Advantage: Get Noticed, Impress Your Bosses, and Become a Top Leader by Jay A. Conger and Allan Church
The Necessary Art of Persuasion by Jay A. Conger
Learning to Lead: The Art of Transforming Managers Into Leaders by Jay A. Conger
Charismatic Leadership: The Elusive Factor in Organizational Effectiveness by Jay A. Conger and Rabindra N. Kanungo
Growing Your Company’s Leaders: How Great Organizations Use Succession Management to Sustain Competitive Advantage Hardcover by Robert M. Fulmer and Jay A. Conger

Books Mentioned in This Episode

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake

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"What sort of world do we want to emerge into?"
"So in order to answer the question - what sort of world do you want? - you have to be clear about the nature of the world we've got. How many of your politicians talk about how quickly they want to return to normal? 'Wouldn't it be nice if we got back to normal?' I don't, because the normal I experienced in 2019 was not a good place. So we hope we could define a future which was slightly different, slightly recast recalibrated for the needs of ordinary people."
"I'm now in a community that cares about change for the better. And that's a good community to be in."
(On the ILA Staff) - "We have a tiny staff for the amount of noise they make. And I just always want to take the opportunity to celebrate the fact that we have them. And it's their work that is going to lead to the amazing conference next month."

Articles/Books by Dr. Hardy

Hardy, M. (forthcoming 2021) Leadership, dialogue and disconnections. Cambridge University Press.
Hardy, M., and Hussain. S., (2019) Dialogue in a Rapidly Changing World: Practitioner Assessments of the Potency of Intercultural Dialogue for Improving Social Cohesion, Journal of Dialogue Studies (7), 9-26.
Hardy, M., and McIlhatton, D. (2019). Decision-Theoretic Behavioural Analytics: Risk Management and Terrorist Intensity Behavioural Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression (RIRT).
Hardy, M. (2017). Muslim Identity in a Turbulent Age: Islamic Fundamentalism and Western Islamaphobia. Jessica Kingsley. (Independent Authors’ Bronze Award for Social Sciences)

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Practical Wisdom for Leaders with Scott J. Allen, Ph.D. - Dr. Jay Conger - The High Potential's Advantage

Transcript

Note: Voice to text transcriptions are about 85% accurate.
Scott Allen 0:00
Today on the program we have, we have a prolific scholar, he's a scholar, he works in organizations, he, for decades now, in fact, Jay Conger. Probably one of my first favorite leadership books, and I'm gonna, I'm gonna hold it up, it was learning to lead. And if I were able to show you the inside of this book, you would see a lot of dog gearing. And I didn't even highlight, I just kind of highlighted whole chu