Dr. Jay Conger - The High Potential's Advantage

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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  
• Rubicon by Tom Holland 
• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear

Other Podcast Guests Mentioned In This Episode

• John Dugan