The psychology of leadership Timeless principles to perfect your leadership of individuals, teams...and yourself!
Book - 2025
The Psychology of Leadership offers a revelatory fresh take on business leadership through the lens of groundbreaking research in positive, sports, and personality psychology. Witty, conversational, and personal, The Psychology of Leadership blends research, fascinating true stories, humor, and self-improvement advice to deliver simple yet powerful principles to master the mental game of leadership. Leaders will develop what feels like mind-reading abilities for interpreting workplace personalities, hidden motivations, and group dynamics. They will learn how to inspire their organization to move mountains, improve their ability to listen, communicate and, when necessary, persuade. Along the way they will dramatically improve their own min...dset and resilience. -- from jacket
- Subjects
- Genres
- Self-help publications
Livres de croissance personnelle - Published
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Hampshire, Great Britain :
Harriman House
2025.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
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- Physical Description
- xi, 283 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9781804090923
9781804091234
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part I. Setting Long-Term Goals
- Principle 1. Don't Die on Everest-Beware of the Side Effects of Measurable Goals
- Principle 2. Don't Become a Miserable Rich Person-Redefine Success
- Principle 3. Learn to Enjoy Mowing the Lawn-Set Goals That Maximize Engagement
- Principle 4. Make Year-End Reviews Useless-Prioritize Relationships
- Principle 5. Don't Fake it-When You Talk About Meaning, Mean It!
- Principle 6. Ignore the Gifted Kids-Don't Focus on Winning
- Principle 7. Don't Admire Billionaires-Choose Your Role Models Carefully
- Principle 8. Build a Bigger Rocket-Unleash the Power of Social Comparison
- Principle 9. Upgrade Your Operating System-Identify and Manage Your Core Beliefs
- Takeaways on Goals
- Part II. Executing Your Goals
- Principle 10. Tune the Engine-Optimize Stress for Peak Performance
- Principle 11. Think About Death-Work Backwards from Your Goals
- Principle 12. Sit on It-Learn Strategic Patience
- Principle 13. Separate Signal from Noise-Focus on What Matters
- Takeaways on Execution
- Part III. Unleashing the Power of Personality Psychology
- Principle 14. Read the Room- Call on the Introverts
- Principle 15. Don't Run Your Business Like a Democracy-Be Disagreeable, Sometimes
- Principle 16. Learn to Love Worry-Harness the Positive Side of Neuroticism
- Principle 17. Be Like Jim Morrison and the Pope-Balance Openness and Structure
- Principle 18. Eat Your Vegetables-Unleash the Power of Good Habits
- Takeaways on Personality Psychology
- One Last Story and Conclusion
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Endnotes