Vertical Growth How Self-Awareness Transforms Leaders and Organisations

Learn the secrets to self-awareness, life-changing growth and happy, high-performing teams--from the bestselling author of The Mindful Leader Great leaders and teams don't know everything, and they don't get it right every time. What sets them apart is their commitment to continual learnin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bunting, Michael, Lemieux, Carl (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Richmond, VIC John Wiley & Sons, Australia, Ltd 2023
Series:A The mindful leader book
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Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Four steps for taking conscious, committed action
  • Using the Mindful Leader Matrix
  • Part II Developing self-awareness and resolving the shadow
  • Chapter 6 The role of mindfulness in personal growth
  • The research on mindfulness
  • Two types of mindfulness training
  • Mindfulness and the Mindful Leader Matrix
  • Mindfulness cultivates distress tolerance
  • Chapter 7 How to practiseself-awareness
  • The four foundations of mindfulness
  • The four foundations in practice
  • Mindfulness and subject-object theory
  • Chapter 8 Overcome numbness and denial
  • Includes bibliographical references and index
  • To see our shadow, we must first overcome numbness and denial
  • How the inner judge triggers numbness
  • Self-compassion creates inner psychological safety
  • Use the matrix to break the pattern of numbness
  • Chapter 9 See and resolve the shadow
  • Uncovering the shadow
  • Using the Mindful Leader Matrix to see and resolve the shadow in quadrants 3 and 4
  • Discover your unconscious assumptions
  • Find the fears, attachments and assumptions causing your stress
  • Two more exploration questions on attachment
  • Completing the left side of the matrix
  • Using the matrix in your personal life
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Free bonus resources
  • Author's note
  • Introduction: The vertical growth imperative
  • Horizontal skills and knowledge versus vertical growth
  • Vertical growth within organisations
  • Vertical growth cuts through image management
  • Why self-awareness is critical
  • Becoming deliberately developmental
  • Cultivating inner psychological safety
  • Research on vertical growth and mindful leadership
  • Part I Developing a vertical growth mindset
  • Chapter 1 The Mindful Leader Matrix
  • How to use the matrix
  • Fast brain, slow brain
  • Expect a messy process
  • Part III Vertical growth in teams and organisations
  • Chapter 10 Setting and living team and organisational values
  • Using the Mindful Leader Matrix within teams and organisations
  • Using the matrix to set team or organisational values
  • Translate your values into behavioural commitments
  • Owning your organisational shadow
  • Chapter 11 Creating a container of team psychological safety
  • How team psychological safety impacts the left side of the matrix
  • Four key elements of psychological safety
  • Chapter 12 Eliminating team triangulation
  • Chapter 2 Why leaders struggle with walking their talk
  • Stages of human development
  • A self-examined life requires courage, but it's worth it
  • Leadership and the self-examining mind
  • Chapter 3 How values helpus grow
  • Values to increase engagement and commitment
  • Quadrant 1: growth values
  • The most important leadership values
  • Honesty as a foundational value to a growth mindset
  • Chapter 4 Choose your growth values
  • Find your growth edge
  • Places to explore growth values
  • Results, goals and strategies versus values
  • Statement of aspiration
  • Chapter 5 Commit to action