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Ego Free Leadership

By: Brandon Black,Shayne Hughes
Narrated by: Brandon Black,Shayne Hughes,Amy Anuk
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Summary

"I've got a solution," Encore's CFO tells Brandon, "but it's unorthodox". It's 2005, and Brandon Black has just been promoted to CEO of Encore Capital, a company struggling to navigate an increasingly difficult business environment. Faced with a rapidly declining stock price and low workplace morale, Brandon knows he needs change - and fast. Following his CFO's advice, he and his executive team start working with Learning as Leadership (LaL) and its president, Shayne Hughes. Through their partnership, Encore's executive team learns to root out the unproductive ego habits that undermine collaboration and performance.

As they instill these more effective behaviors throughout the organization, Encore begins to solve problems collectively, prioritize resources without infighting, and focus on the initiatives with the greatest strategic value. When the financial crisis of 2008-09 forces 90 percent of its competitors out of business, Encore thrives, with its profits increasing by 300 percent and its stock price by 1,200 percent. Told from two lively first-person perspectives, Ego Free Leadership brings listeners along for Encore's incredible success story. They'll see a CEO overcome his unconscious resistance to modeling the change he wants in his team and discover a time-tested road map for eliminating the destructive effects of the ego in teams and organizations.

©2017 Brandon Black and Shayne Hughes (P)2017 Learning as Leadership

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Excellent book, a must read for self improvement

I absolutely loved this book, and despite it’s addressed to leaders it’s aplicable to anyone with a desire to improve as a person. I’ve read a lot about EGO but this book revealed some aspects not many people know about, and has practical advice on how to identify and correct the bad behaviors caused by it. Highly recommendable

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Useful insights

Sadly I’m not sure the people who need this book the most will be the type to actually read or listen to it! Initially I felt I had very little in common with Brandon but as he starts to unpick why he would behave certain ways, he becomes more relatable. Useful ideas behind rapport building and getting your team on side. I would recommend to anyone in a management or leadership role

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brilliant

one of the most impactful books I've read in a long time. loved the format and the story

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Most powerful leadership book I have read in years

This book is an amazing balance of human science knowledge, with vivid real life examples but most critically with practical steps that anyone can follow.

I admit that when I selected this tittle I already thought of myself as an ego free leader and that it would serve my confirmation bias to read it and be righteous but the book taught me that my perception was wrong. I reaction to pitches that threatened my ego and that lead to self for filling destructive behaviours. The book has allow me to reflect and restate my personal meaningful purpose and I am going to try to be better.

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Not a bad book for ego free management

It’s a good book but I don’t think the book has to be as long as it was, it’s could be just as effective in a smaller format without the compromise of quality helpful listening, sometimes the structure chops and changes a lot which can make it hard to sink into a groove and effectively listen.
Having said all that I would and will listen to it again but it really requires you to sit alone and listen to this. Hard work absorbing the info whilst driving as it demands all of your attention.
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Game changer!

Loved this book. Authentic and pragmatic in how you can change. Listened to it at at time when i most needed to. Would recommend to anyone, well those ready to take a good look at their behaviours. Hands up to the authors 👍

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Relatable, honest, practical

I loved this book. I struggled a little at the start, but once I focused there were so many relatable stories and messages. What I loved most is the unapologetic humanity that Brandon shows - he admits that it's an ongoing battle, and that he still requires a moment to pull back from his inner voice/ ego to get to a constructive path.

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one of the best books on leadership

loved this book. loved the story and it makes it easy to connect and understand how our unconscious bias sabotage our personal and organisational success. a must ready for every leader who wants to build strong company culture devoid of biases.

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Thought provoking and helpful.

I read this for self development as a senior leader in a government department. Clearly operating in a different environment, but so many of the challenges described resonate with my daily experience. This book gives great advice which I can immediately implement, and things to reflect on moving forward. I want all my colleagues to read this book too.

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invaluable resource

an extremely useful book that helps understand why we feel a 'pinch' and how to control them to better pull together as a team. with many similar challenges in my current role the examples given are helping me change my leadership style and work with other slt members to overcome these challenges. I'm confident these will help us go from good to great . thank you

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