The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
We discuss Jonathan Haidt’s urgent call to action in The Anxious Generation—a powerful look at childhood, digital culture, resilience and reconnection.
It’s Monday Morning, and I’m Sitting at My Desk. Why Do I Feel So Anxious?
It’s a familiar scenario: You sit down at your desk on a Monday morning, coffee in hand, ready to start the week. But instead of arriving energized or motivated, you’re anxious. Your chest tightens, your mind races, and you can’t shake the unease that has settled in. But why does this happen, and what can you do about it?
Mindset by Carol Dweck
Mindset: Changing the Way You Think to Fulfil Your Potential by Dr. Carol S. Dweck explores how our beliefs about our abilities profoundly influence our lives. Dweck introduces two primary mindsets: the fixed mindset and the growth mindset.
Make Failure Your Friend
Failure is inevitable. If you’re breathing, you will fail at things. It’s part of the human experience, yet most of us will do almost anything to avoid it. Why? What’s the problem with failing? The issue for most of us is that we fear it. We fear failure because we have a core belief that it’s not that we’ve failed at something but that we are failures.
Mind the Gap Between What You Believe and How You Lead
I have a couple of questions for you. Can you, as a leader, articulate your core beliefs and values? And do you lead others in a way that aligns with them – your value code?
If you lead people in any capacity, it’s important (and incredibly helpful) you know your value code and let it inform and guide your decisions and the tone you set in leadership.
Relevance
There are hundreds of books on leadership, and every once in a while a book comes along that provides a perspective different to the status quo. Relevance: Matter More is one such book.
Styrlund, Hayes and Deegan argue that in a competitive global market glutted with information and products, there is something that matters more when trying to achieve a position that is unique and distinctive: relevance.
Lessons from the Top
A leader’s journey is so much more than a collection of experiences or a series of events. It is part of a much larger story or narrative.
Presented the right way, a leader’s story not only has the potential to inspire others; it has the ability to provide meaning and context to the present and the future.
The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles That Fuel Success and Performance at Work
From a young age we have it drilled into us that if we work hard we’ll achieve success, and we’ll be happy or fulfilled. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with working hard; in fact, there is a strong link between achievement and effort. However, as declared by Achor, empirical evidence reveals that happiness and optimism significantly fuel performance and achievement, not the other way around.
The Alliance – Managing Talent in the Networked Age
Leaders can’t afford not to be in the ‘talent’ business.
Most leaders would agree that managing talent is an enormous challenge. Putting aside the costs associated with the recruitment and development of staff, holding onto someone that you can’t afford to lose is a battle easily lost.
GROW – How ideals power growth and profit at the world’s 50 great companies
GROW: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the World’s 50 Greatest Companies is a must read for all leaders, particularly if you are trying to identify what is going to differentiate you from a magnitude of companies—especially those in the same business as you.
Not based on ‘feel-good’ anecdotes and clichés, but on almost ten years of empirical research, Stengel analyzes the ‘brand ideals’ of the world’s best businesses, and how those ideals contributed to exponential growth, performance, and profit.