The psychology of leadership : timeless principles to perfect your leadership of individuals, teams and yourself! /
Sébastien Page.
- Great Britain Harriman House 2025.
- xi, 283 p. black and white illustrations 23 cm
Includes afterword, acknowledgements, and endnotes
Foreword / H. Lawrence Culp Jr, Introduction, Part I: Setting Long-Term Goals. Don't die on Everest-beware of the side effects of ,measurable goals, Don't become a miserable rich person-redefine success, Learn to enjoy mowing the lawn-set goals that maximize engagement, Make year-end reviews useless-prioritize relationships, Don't fake it-when you talk about meaning, mean it!, Ignore the gifted kids-don't' focus on winning, Don't admire billionaires-choose your models carefully, Build a bigger rocket-unleash the power of social comparison, Upgrade your operating system-identify and manage your core beliefs, Takeaways on goals, Part II: Executing Your Goals. Tune the engine-optimize stress for peak performance, Think about death-work backwards from your goals, Sit on it-learn strategic patience, Separate signal from noise-focus on what matters, Takeaways on execution, Part III: Unleashing the Power of Personality Psychology. Read the room-call on the introverts, Don't run your business like a democracy, be disagreeable sometimes, Learn to love worry-harness the positive side neuroticism, Be like Jim Morrison and the Pope-balance openness and structure, Eat your vegetables-unleash the power of good habits, takeaways on personality psychology, One Last Story and Conclusion, Afterword / Daniel Zimet, Acknowledgments, Endnotes
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 mindset and resilience.
"This fantastic book will give you the tools to guide yourself, and others, to peak performance." Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, New York Times bestselling author