The Mind of the Leader: How to Lead Yourself, Your People, and Your Organization for Extraordinary Results by Rasmus Hougaard, Jacqueline Carter

The Mind of the Leader: How to Lead Yourself, Your People, and Your Organization for Extraordinary Results
Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter

Format: Hardcover, 256pp.
ISBN: 9781633693425
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date: March 13, 2018

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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 addresses 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.

Based on surveys of more than 35,000 leaders, interviews of more than 200 C-suite executives, and an extensive study of evidence-based research in leadership, and filled with inspiring stories and practical step-by-step ideas for adopting new practices, The Mind of the Leader has the potential to change how you lead yourself and your people and to transform your organization.

About the Authors

Rasmus Hougaard is an internationally acknowledged expert in training the mind to be focused and clear at work. He is the founder of The Potential Project--a leading global provider of corporate-based mindfulness solutions operating in 20 countries. He and his teams are training senior executives, leaders and employees in organizations like Google, Nike, Accenture, GE, and many other organizations in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.

Jacqueline Carter is a Partner of Potential Project International and Director of The Potential Project North America. Her clients include Cisco, Accenture, LVMH, and the Royal Bank of Canada. She holds a master's degree in organizational behavior and worked with Deloitte's Change Leadership Practice. Jacqueline has lived and worked in Canada, the United States, Australia, and Singapore.

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