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The Mind of the Leader
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The Mind of the Leader

by Rasmus Hougaard, Jacqueline Carter
March 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
256 pages
6h 32m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
Audiobook available
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Understand Your People

To lead your people, first you must understand them. You must understand what matters to them, what they think, and what they feel. Only then can you lead them for more meaning, happiness, and connectedness.

But there are challenges. First, we don’t see other people as they are, but as distorted through our own perceptions and unconscious biases. And second, they’re not what they say and think, but rather what they experience and feel. Take a moment to test your own unconscious biases. Imagine you receive a message that your company has just hired a new chief technology officer.

  • According to your first instinct, is it a man or a woman?

  • How old is the new CTO?

  • What race is the new CTO?

  • How tall is the new CTO?

  • What car ...

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ISBN: 9781633693432