The Courage To Lead: New Ways Of Thinking To Accelerate Your Growth: Courage In The Workplace

• • Author: My Pikus

  • Summary: Most people feel some kind of fear daily. Some are motivated by it; others are debilitated by it! Entrepreneurs feel fear as well; the successful ones use this fear to propel themselves and their companies forward. Their teams thrive on change and growth instead of struggling through it (or quitting)! True entrepreneurs are in constant growth mode, and growth means change! But great change, change that really sticks, is more like a constant evolution than a revolution, and living in fear makes that evolution scary instead of exciting. Teams that thrive live in courage rather than in fear. Essentially, they have cultivated a courageous mindset, a bold way of thinking that fuels the evolution of the company. It’s not that they don’t feel the fear; they feel the fear and do it anyway. As they live and work in courage rather than in fear, the fear they used to feel turns into excitement for the future!  In this book, you'll discover three components that create the courage mindset--a valuable accelerator for heightening business excellence and company-wide innovation.

Courage Goes to Work: How to Build Backbones, Boost Performance, and Get Results

• Authors: Bill Treasurer, John Ryan

• Summary: The hardest part of a manager's job isn't staying organized, meeting deliverable dates, or staying on budget. It's dealing with people who are too comfortable doing things the way they've always been done and too afraid to do things differently--workers who are, as Bill Treasurer puts it, too "comfeartable." They fail to exert themselves any more than they have to and make their businesses dangerously safe.  Treasurer, a courage-building pioneer, proposes a bold antidote: courage. He lays out a step-by-step process that treats courage as a skill that can be developed and strengthened. Treasurer differentiates what he calls the Three Buckets of Courage: TRY Courage, having the guts to take initiative; TRUST Courage, being willing to follow the lead of others; and TELL Courage, being honest and assertive with coworkers and bosses. Aristotle said that courage is the first virtue because it makes all other virtues possible. It's as true in business as it is in life. With more courage, workers gain the confidence to take on harder projects, embrace company changes with more enthusiasm, and extend themselves in ways that will benefit their careers and their company.

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

• Author: Adam Grant

• Summary: The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Potential, Originals, and Give and Take examines the critical art of rethinking: learning to question your opinions and open other people's minds, which can position you for excellence at work and wisdom in life.  Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, there's another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn. In our daily lives, too many of us favor the comfort of conviction over the discomfort of doubt. 

Organizational psychologist Adam Grant is an expert on opening other people's minds--and our own. As Wharton's top-rated professor and the bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take, he makes it one of his guiding principles to argue like he's right but listen like he's wrong. With bold ideas and rigorous evidence, he investigates how we can embrace the joy of being wrong, bring nuance to charged conversations, and build schools, workplaces, and communities of lifelong learners. You'll learn how an international debate champion wins arguments, a Black musician persuades white supremacists to abandon hate, a vaccine whisperer convinces concerned parents to immunize their children, and Adam has coaxed Yankees fans to root for the Red Sox. Think Again reveals that we don't have to believe everything we think or internalize everything we feel. It's an invitation to let go of views that are no longer serving us well and prize mental flexibility over foolish consistency. If knowledge is power, knowing what we don't know is wisdom.