In Rising Strong, Brown teaches us to understand our subconscious story that creates our reactions, walk it back to the root cause, and then guide us to rewrite the ending. Doing so allows us to alter how we engage. The concepts from this book drive the roots of our resilience that allows us to keep going back to the big challenges. What is revolutionary is that perhaps we have been defining strengths and weaknesses incorrectly. Buckingham proposes that our strengths are those things that energize us and make us stronger and weaknesses are those things that drain our energy.
Through that lens we can look past our learned skills to our authentic talents. He names the five thieves as control, conceit, coveting, consumption, and comfort. Each of these has a countervailing force and a way forward. For example, the opposite of control is surrender, and it can allow us to focus on our intention instead of worrying about controlling the outcome.
Understanding the thieves lays a path back to happiness, or at least contentedness. Instead, purpose is but one of four pillars of meaning. The other three are belonging, storytelling, and transcendence. Each of us has a unique mix of these pillars that create meaning in our lives. Knowing that allows us to apply ourselves more consciously to increase our sense of meaning, and thus increase engagement in our work. As leaders, we may also try to understand what gives our team members meaning.
Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice. Leading people. Once you learn to lead yourself, you will own a more diverse and resilient toolset from which you can lead and develop others. At times you will use these skills with the team you lead directly. At other times you will use them situationally with others outside of your team. True North is about the art of leading others.
It represents who you are as a human being at your deepest level. It is your orientation point that helps you stay on track as a leader. Hardcopy Audiobook.
Originally titled Three Signs of a Miserable Job, this book explores three things that make employees hate their jobs. They are: a lack of understanding around how they are measured, not knowing to whom their work matters, and feeling like nobody knows who they are.
Lencioni also discusses what managers can do to overcome these challenges and create employee engagement. Hard conversations are … hard. So, we avoid them or we allow emotions to reign. This book offers suggestions around how to navigate these challenging moments. The authors define crucial conversations as having three preconditions—opinions vary, stakes are high, and emotions run strong.
The authors then walk us through a framework for resolving issues. Hardcopy eBook. Maurer is a change management advisor who understands that you have to overcome inevitable resistance in order for change to happen. Then he explores strategies to make successful changes more often.
Notably, absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability, and inattention to results. When leaders carry a clear understanding of these five behaviors and how to remedy them, they are more likely to identify and correct them. As the author relates, people do business with people they like.
This book explores the 11 laws that contribute to how likeable someone is, and the success they will have networking and building relationships. The power in the laws is to find the ones most authentic to each of us, and use those to tailor our engagement with others. Leading organizations. Leadership has many roles, some of which are dependent upon our position within an organization.
The most senior business leaders in an organization are responsible for defining company mission, values, culture, and strategy, and the following books address many of these topics. For those at lower levels of leadership in an organization, these business books can serve a couple of purposes.
First, they are key to leadership development and give tools to begin to sharpen your saw. Second, they give you a better understanding of what your top table is trying to do and how best to support them. Conscious business, as a principle, can be described as transferring our conscious values as individuals into our work, and even better, into the company values.
It explores expressing values, understanding boundaries, communicating constructively, effective negotiations, and more. Good to Great outlines the principles that separate consistent market segment outperformers from other companies with equal opportunity to do the same. They are research-based, and still applicable today, making this a classic, must-read leadership book.
It provides insights into what makes a successful leadership team, how to build a culture of discipline, and how technology and analytics can make a difference in an organizations growth — when used correctly. The core of this book is about understanding what gives organizations market power, and why it is difficult to find the resources to exploit those traits.
Kendi has a great knack of reducing this charged topic to a set of definitions and dimensions surrounding racism. This allows for more rational, and less emotional, discussions about dealing with racist policies and ideas rather than racists. There is a blueprint here for organizations that want to re-examine their approach to inclusion and unconscious bias.
Moneyball is a book about market disruption and competitive strategy. It chronicles the low-budget Oakland Athletics team and how they disrupted their industry with new approaches that gave them a distinct competitive advantage.
That is, until the industry changed to catch up. The Future-Minded Leader: A mindset for moving forward in uncertainty.
Follow us. Best leadership books: 21 of the most impactful reads By Ian Munro. October 21, - 29 min read. Share this article. Jump to section Leading yourself 1. The Power of Meaning Leading people The 11 Laws of Likability Leading organizations Hardcopy eBook Audiobook 2. The Art of Possibility , by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander The Art of Possibility provides insight into how to shift from converging on problems, to instead thinking divergently about the possibilities in front of us.
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The 10 natural laws of successful time and life management First published in Subjects Life skills , Nonfiction , Recovery , Stress management , Time management , Cheng gong fa , Shi jian , Guan li.
Edition Description An excellent book on managing not only your time but also your life. Edition Notes Other Titles Ten natural laws of successful time and life management. T54 S6
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