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Strategic Leadership Shouldn't Feel This Hard

You're flat out every day, and starting to wonder if it's you

Whether it's your own business or a team you lead, you keep getting pulled back into the day-to-day. Here's your step-by-step way out

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Dr. Marshall Goldsmith
Dr. Marshall GoldsmithWorld's #1 Executive Coach
Brian Tracy
Brian TracyTop Leadership Authority

Everyone thinks you've got it handled

Some mornings you're reading work messages in bed, and the dread starts before your feet touch the floor.

By 9am the questions are queuing. By 9pm you're redoing work you handed off, and resenting every minute.

  • You're told to "be more strategic," and you nod, hoping nobody guesses you're not sure what that means.
  • You hunt for one free hour to think, find double bookings all week, and feel your chest go tight.
  • As the business grows, you get busier and busier, and you think, "If I stop, it all stops."
  • You start rambling in the leadership meeting, see eyes glazing over, and feel your face go hot. Again.
  • The role goes to someone "more strategic," or the business stalls, and you wonder, "Is this as far as I go?"

You're always playing catch up, never getting ahead of the ball, and at dinner you feel guilty you weren't listening.

Even on holiday you sneak a look at the inbox, then hope your family didn't notice.

You snap at someone over something small, see their face fall, and wish you could take it back.

At 3am you're lying awake with payroll or that meeting on replay, and nobody to tell, because everyone looks to you.

And underneath it all is the question you'd never say out loud: "Do I even belong here?"

Now picture walking in the front door with enough of you left to listen.

...I didn't think I belonged there.

...Multiple things would stress me out and keep me up at night.

...It used to feel like everyone was walking on eggshells around me.

Declan Kluverco-founder and chief business officer, XR Recruiter

You're allowed to stop being everyone's answer to everything.

And the good news is, you can learn to step back without the guilt.

You can stop blaming yourself

It's not your fault.

Fixing things is what got you here, and nobody ever taught you what to do instead.

So when someone starts a question, you've jumped in before they finish. Of course you have: it's habit.

You don't have to earn your place by fixing everything.

Your team, and company, are ready for you to let that habit go.

They don't need you doing anymore. They need you leading.

And that requires a whole new way of being.

You block out time, then feel guilty using it to think.

The book and the 28-day bootcamp's daily exercises help you sit with that, a few minutes a day.

Peter felt "swamped all the time":

Before, strategic stuff was always done at the end of the day when I was tired and worn out.

Now strategic stuff gets done first.

...Two words: calm and relaxed.

Peter Cranstonindependent oil and gas energy consultant and project management consultant

Here's where this takes you

  • In your next management meeting you're calm, and ask the one question that changes the whole discussion.
  • You finally feel comfortable in strategic conversations, seeing what's coming before anyone else does.
  • You design your team to run with your vision, and you feel the weight come off your shoulders.
  • Senior leaders want your counsel and ask you into the important meetings, and you know you belong there.
  • You sleep through the night, wake up without the dread, and on holiday you actually switch off.
  • You're seen as promotion-ready, and you go for the role you used to talk yourself out of.

After 24 years at GSK, Isabelle kept hearing, "it's not the right time for you."

I went for a couple of jobs that I probably wouldn't have gone for if I hadn't been on your course.

And I got the job, and I'm totally loving it, thinking to myself, why didn't you do this before?

Isabelle (Issy)continuous improvement lead, GSK

What changes when you use this system

Know what "strategic" means for you

Decide what to stop, hand off and think about.

Find room in a double-booked calendar

Give those freed hours to your next big decision.

Delegate so it stays delegated

Use the Delegation Flowchart so work stays off your desk at 9pm.

Be the strategic player

Speak up, be heard and run meetings with presence and natural authenticity

Scott kept going too deep in the weeds with senior leaders. Then came a briefing two levels up:

I was able to deliver that message at the right level.

And my program managers that I'm working with all said that it was a great session.

Scott Thompsonengineer for US Air Force Program

Why is this only $37?

For years, this framework was only available through corporate engagements.

It only ever reached people whose companies could afford to invest at that level.

Great leadership development shouldn't be gated behind a corporate budget. So I built this to change that.

It's the same system and the same process.

Now it's available to any leader dedicated enough to purchase it, at a price that removes the barrier entirely.

5 out of 5 stars

After 20+ years in business, Pepper felt "overworked" after a "terrible staff experience":

...I had a couple of meltdowns, one of which I was actually on holiday...

I felt like the book was written for me...

I have since managed to get some good team members and had a little bit of peace...

Pepper

Joey kept "reading and re-reading":

...I'm also a coach and recently promoted to Head Coach, partly due to this book.

Joey in Seattle

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Your team runs the day-to-day while you grow the business.

Joshua runs a travel agency in Malaysia with his wife:

I couldn't grow any further because I realized I'm the biggest bottleneck for my business.

...a lot of time we spend a lot of energy fighting with each other.

...most of the decision was done by my team and then they carry on... I am no more the bottleneck.

...Now I let her take the lead... in a way I think this make the business easier for us.

Joshua Gohtravel agency owner, Malaysia
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R. Michael Anderson

R. Michael Anderson

3x CEO · Inc. 5000 founder · Leadership psychologist

I know what it's like to be told you're too tactical.

In my early thirties, during a partnership negotiation, the global CEO told my CEO to leave me out of day two.

That's where this system started, and it's now used in leadership programs at Microsoft, PwC, and Salesforce.

Common questions

I'm already overwhelmed. How much time does it take?

A few focused sittings for the book (or listen on your commute) and minutes a day for the bootcamp.

My team is small or short-staffed, and still needs me hands-on.

Some of it will stay with you. Start with one question people keep bringing you that someone else could answer.

Are Michael's live programs included?

No. The $37 covers the digital system above. The live programs some testimonials mention are separate.

You already know something needs to change

Start by handing one routine decision to your team, and use that time to plan what comes next.

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