We know that leadership is in part about managing our own health so that you can better lead others.
Be proactive in managing your own mental health.
In part, the practice of stopping creates a circuit breaker in an otherwise hectic day. It provides a pause to consciously reflect on how you are feeling at that moment and to reset that if necessary.
The book is about all the bits that go around the negotiation that set a negotiation up to succeed or fail.
Now, sometimes a job is really beyond this. But Seligman says that usually, even in the most dire of work situations, by using your strengths you can transform your job into something tolerable, bearable, even something positive.
All of this same same simply perpetuates what we already know. It doesn’t prepare us for what is coming. It doesn’t give diversity of thought.
“Radical candor is humble, it’s helpful, it’s immediate, it’s in person — in private if it’s criticism and in public if it’s praise — and it doesn’t personalize.”
Good leadership doesn’t reduce employee turnover precisely because of good leadership.
Ask yourself, if this is what your life looked like in five years, ten years time, would you be happy? Often we tolerate a lifestyle because we tell ourselves it is short term, but the reality is somewhat different.
It’s something we are very passionate about, because it’s often the smallest of issues that end up being handled so badly that they become bigger than ben hur.
The research, both quantitative and qualitative shows that being real, being authentic, being connected and being human pays off when it comes to leadership. No longer is it about the removed – about relying on positional power.
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