The mind of the leader : how to lead yourself, your people, and your organization for extraordinary results

The mind of the leader How to lead yourself, your people, and your organization for extraordinary results

Rasmus Hougaard

Book - 2018

Most leaders think they're effective at motivating their employees, but study after study shows that employees are more disengaged and uninspired than ever. The solution lies not in more management training or fun off-sites but in looking within--into the mind of the leader. Based on their years-long research and practice, Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter, of the Potential Project, have conclusively found that three qualities stand out as being foundational for leaders today: mindfulness, selflessness, and compassion--what they call the MSC Leadership Mind, the ideal mind of the leader. Mindfulness addresses the distractedness that kills our focus, stunts our productivity, and makes us action-addicted multitaskers. Selflessness ad...dresses the general lack of fulfillment in work life by helping us--and the people we lead--find true happiness and meaning. And compassion addresses today's social disintegration by enhancing true human connections, followership, and engagement. While some think these traits are innate, Hougaard and Carter, together with hundreds of their associates working with thousands of leaders around the world, have developed a system to help leaders of all kinds learn and cultivate the MSC Leadership Mind. By addressing their own needs first, then those of their people, and finally the culture of their organization, every leader can learn to embody what makes for great leadership in today's challenging organizational environment.--

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Subjects
Leadership > Psychological aspects.
Mindfulness (Psychology)
Selflessness (Psychology)
Compassion.
Published
Boston, Massachusetts : Harvard Business Review Press [2018]
Language
English
Main Author
Rasmus Hougaard (author)
Other Authors
Jacqueline (Consultant) Carter (author)
Physical Description
viii, 238 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9781633693425
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • 1. The MSC Leader
  • Part 1. Understand and Lead Yourself
  • 2. Understand Yourself
  • 3. Mindfully Lead Yourself
  • 4. Selfless Self-Leadership
  • 5. Lead Yourself with Compassion
  • Part 2. Understand and Lead Your People
  • 6. Understand Your People
  • 7. Mindful Leadership
  • 8. Selfless Leadership
  • 9. Compassionate Leadership
  • Part 3. Understand and Lead Your Organization
  • 10. Understand Your Organization
  • 11. Lead of a Mindful Organization
  • 12. Lead for a Selfless Organization
  • 13. Lead for a Compassionate Organization
  • Afterword: Leadership for a Hard Future
  • Appendix A. The Mind of the Leader App
  • Appendix B. Practices for Training Compassion
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments
  • About the Authors
  • Author Team
Review by Library Journal Review

A Gallup engagement survey from 2016 found that 24 percent of respondents are actively disengaged from their work. The survey also noted that 82 percent see their leaders as uninspiring. In the same year, a McKinsey & Company study found that 86 percent of the 52,000 managers surveyed identified themselves as inspiring to their employees. Hougaard and Carter, coauthors of One Second Ahead, use this disconnect as a starting point to focus on how leaders can become better at engaging and encouraging their employees. Using more than a decade of research and training with managers from Fortune 500 companies, the authors have identified three foundational skills needed for an effective leader: mindfulness, selflessness, and compassion. Their book looks at how leaders need to demonstrate these skills and project them out to their organizations to combat the increasingly disenchanted corporate culture. Unlike their previous work, which was geared toward all employees, this title concentrates on how leaders can help develop mindfulness and compassion in the workplace. VERDICT While the idea of mindfulness at work is nothing new, the message that leaders must change the larger corporate culture to include selflessness and compassion is an important one in our current climate. Recommended.-John Rodzvilla, Emerson Coll., Boston © Copyright 2018. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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