Leading with emotional courage : how to have hard conversations, create accountability, and inspire action on your most important work / Peter Bregman.
"What makes leadership hard isn't theoretical, it's practical. It's not about knowing what to say or do. It's about whether you're willing to experience the discomfort, risk, and uncertainty of saying or doing it. The most critical challenge of leadership is having emotional courage. That's the idea...
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| Language: | English |
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Hoboken :
Wiley,
2018.
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| Physical Description: | xli, 224 pages ; 22 cm |
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Contents:
- Element one: Build your confidence. Know who your are. Be yourself: the high cost of conformity, and how to avoid it
- Find your ground: stay steady, balanced, and calm
- Stay curious about yourself: how to ask for feedback that will actually help you
- Access self-compassion: the problem with high expectations
- Embrace your shadow: how to avoid becoming the person you hate
- It's not all about achievement: stop worrying about how much you matter
- Part two: Become who you want to be. Find clarity: What's your one big theme?
- Become more of who you are: you're already pretty amazing
- Stay focused: you need to practice being your future self
- Be strategic and intentional: five steps to investing your energy more wisely
- Don't lose yourself in pursuit of becoming yourself: take your life back
- How will you measure success?: why you should treat laughter as a metric
- Element two: Connect with others. Be curious and trusting. The impact of trust: the real secret of thoroughly excellent companies
- Stay open: how to really listen
- Stay curious about others: people can't be summed up by personality tests
- Stay creative: Are you trying to solve the wrong problem?
- Be useful: hold the baby
- Make people feel good: how not to lose a sale
- Be clear and trustworthy. Everyone is contagious: how to use your superpower for good
- Use fear as a guide: how to talk about what you most dread
- Lead with the punchline: how to start a hard conversation
- Skillful communication in the heat of the moment: outsmart your next angry outburst
- Own your stuff: I want you to apologize
- Let others know you see them: 20 seconds to a better bonus
- Element three: Commit to purpose. Energize your focus. Play hard: Nadal is strong enough to cry; are you?
- Know where you're going: define your big arrow
- Focus where it matters: four areas to focus your attention
- Use your focus as a filter: use your first day back from vacation to energize your focus
- You can't say it enough: the mouthwash principle: for energized focus, rinse and repeat
- And sometimes it's better to say less: if you want people to listen, stop talking
- Focus their energy. Gifted, game, and generous: three qualities all leaders need to cultivate within their teams
- Engage from the beginning: the farm-to-table method of focusing the energy of your team
- Helping others be trustworthy: the secret to ensuring follow-through
- Creating accountability: five building blocks for a culture of accountability
- Bigger than you: why leaders should try to be overwhelmed
- Improving performance after a critical error (PACE): how to react when someone disappoints
- Element four: Cultivate emotional courage. Feel courageously. Know what you are feeling: develop your awareness
- Feeling is physical: dance with your monster
- Practice feeling: Embracing temptation
- Feel uncertainty: the emotional adventure of leadership
- Be willing to feel the hard stuff: why leaders must feel pain
- Feel everything: allow for complexity
- Act boldly. Risk is the key to leadership: unlocking your success equation
- Build your risk muscle: the small personal risks that change behavior
- Make a decision: act boldly to get moving
- Risk truth: It's your job to tell the bold truths
- Try something different: the unexpected power of inauthenticity
- The limitless possibility of now: a question that can change your life.