Leading outside your comfort zone the surprising psychology of resilience, growth, and well-being / D. Christopher Kayes.
| Author/creator | Kayes, D. Christopher |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Stanford, California : Stanford Business Books, an imprint of Stanford University Press, [2025] |
| Description | viii, 238 pages 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Surprising psychology of resilience, growth, and well-being |
| Contents | Rising to the outsized demands of leadership -- Moving outside your comfort zone as a source of growth and well-being : overcoming the anxiety-ridden demands of leadership -- What research says about the practice of personal resilience : leading for resilience, growth, and well-being -- Achieving optimal improvement through learning and performing: moving beyond the unrealistic expectations that undermine leading -- Turning adverse events into opportunities for growth : accepting adverse factors beyond your control -- Cultivating novel experiences : the experiences that count for developing as a leader -- Accepting unpleasant emotions : growth from frustration and other painful emotions -- Implementing learning strategies : five strategies for resilience and growth -- Motivating yourself to learn : the psychology of learning, motivation, and resilience -- Keeping focused : overcoming distractions or why "staying focused" is so difficult -- Leading teams : leading through the emotional turmoil of groups -- Leading organizations : resilience, growth, and well-being at scale -- Tiered goal setting : overcoming the limits of goal setting through tiered goals -- Pathways to leading beyond your comfort zone : a simple formula for leading: move, sleep, learn. |
| Abstract | "Leading is inevitably frustrating and emotionally demanding, yet leaders get little training in how to deal with painful emotions. Since the global pandemic, stresses on leaders have only grown. To remain effective in an age of anxiety, leaders must build the capacity to act in spite of unpleasant emotions, and bring a learning mindset to novel challenges. Leading Outside Your Comfort Zone draws on a wide body of research to show how well-being and resilience emerges from this struggle -- from continuing to learn in the face of unpleasant emotions. The book offers leaders tools for building everyday resilience and learning how to: Face new challenges Improve progress toward goals; Improve productivity during discouraging, apparently "unfruitful" periods; Overcome frustration; Build confidence and a mindset of stress-less productivity; Build resilience throughout the organization. The book integrates insights from diverse disciplines, including management and organization studies, psychology, sports and military psychology, neuroscience, and education, and presents original research involving over 1,000 leaders. The book focuses on five tools that help leaders develop positive emotional engagement, creative problem-solving, learning identity, flexibility, and social support"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-232) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2024009287 |
| ISBN | 9781503640528 (cloth) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |