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Unlocking The Bias Every Leader Has (And How To Fix It) With Mark Miller

Unlocking The Bias Every Leader Has (And How To Fix It) With Mark Miller11 ago53 min

Mark Miller spent almost 45 years at Chick-fil-A, rising to VP of High Performance Leadership, and along the way he accidentally co-wrote a book with Ken Blanchard that's now in 34 languages. He's back on Unlocked to talk about the newly re-released edition of THE SECRET: What Great Leaders Know and Do, a third of it rewritten, with a research-backed free assessment and facilitator's guide added.

We get into why "servant leadership" has become a tarnished brand, and why buying donuts and walking dogs is service, not leadership. Mark shares data from a global survey of 4,000 leaders across six countries where over 60% named the same thing as their boss's biggest limitation: ego.

Timestamps:

00:00:00 – Cold Start & Intro

00:08:40 – Why Rewrite a Book That Already Sold 700K Copies

00:12:50 – Why "Servant Leadership" Got a Bad Name

00:15:26 – The Definition Problem Nobody Talks About

00:20:13 – The #1 Thing Blocking Your Boss

00:26:35 – When Learning Becomes a Hiding Place

00:31:34 – Why the Quarter Kills the Relationship

00:38:33 – Own Your Bias, Then Compensate

00:45:20 – Does Pressure Reveal Character or Build It?