003: Strategically Managing Your Leadership Capital with Victor Prince

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🗓️ 24 April 2016

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Victor shared some wise perspectives from his book Lead Inside the Box. Working through his 2x2 leadership framework, we got some insight on how to engage work different categories of people differently. By doing so, you can get optimal results from everyone—from the “slacker” to the “exemplar.”

— YOU'LL LEARN —

1) The potential life-threatening implications of not managing your leadership capital.

2) Specific watch-outs and pro tips for working with four different categories of people.

3) How to deliver tricky feedback to the folks who need to hear it.

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— ABOUT VICTOR —

Victor Prince is the Managing Director of DiscoveredLOGIC, a strategy consulting and training firm that serves clients in the US and overseas. He has 20+ years of experience in corporate and government leadership positions. As a Bain & Company consultant, he led strategy engagements with clients in the US, UK, France and Spain. As an executive at Capital One, he managed internet marketing strategy. As a member of Washington DC Mayor Fenty's cabinet, he led the CapStat performance accountability program. As the Chief Operating Officer of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, he helped build a new federal regulatory agency and led a division of 300-plus people.

Victor's book: Lead Inside the Box book and 2×2 leadership matrix
Victor's website: www.victorprince.com
Video: Victor’s speaking about the Lead Inside the Box methodology and about his leadership lessons learned by hiking the Camino de Santiago across Spain.

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

Tool: Leadership Questionnaire
Tool: Myers-Briggs personality type indicator
Study: Authority at work, compared to the Stanley Milgram experiment
Book: The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
Website: Snopes.com
Show: Breaking Bad
Personality: Dan Tangherlini

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast,
0:04.0	the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.
0:10.0	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.
0:14.0	With your host, Pete McKitis.
0:18.0	All right, well, I'm excited for this episode 3 here
0:21.6	where we've got Mr. Victor Prince laying down some good
0:25.2	perspective when it comes to what he call strategically managing your leadership
0:29.5	capital and that is the the time and energy you invest in people and how to do that in a smart way
0:35.5	so that you get the optimal results from all kinds of different folks, whether they're a quote
0:39.7	slacker or a quote exemplar. these terms come from his book it's award
0:44.3	waiting it's called lead inside the box and this is a little bit visual so you
0:49.2	about to go ahead and come on over to awesome at your job.com slash EP3 so you can look at that and
0:57.0	potentially follow along but even if you can't do that for a while it's just
1:00.4	fine you can get the idea auditorily and check it out later.
1:04.6	But Victor had some fantastic nuggets to share associated with how not doing this strategic
1:10.0	management can even be life-threatening with regard to overwork. Some particular
1:14.5	watch-outs like don't do this and pro-tips do do this if you're interacting with
1:18.8	that different particular category of person and how to have some of those tricky conversations and feedback for when that needs to happen.
1:26.5	Victor Prince is the managing director of Discovered Logic, a strategy consulting and trading firm that serves clients in the U.S. and overseas.
1:34.0	He has over 20 years of experience in corporate and government leadership positions.
1:37.5	He was a fellow Bain and Company consultant.
1:39.7	And there he led strategy engagements with the clients in the US, UK, France and Spain.
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