"A research-backed guide to leading with confidence and resilience in an age of anxiety. Leadership can be frustrating and emotionally demanding, yet leaders get little training in how to deal with painful emotions. To be effective and enjoy their role over the long term, leaders must build the capacity to act in spite of unpleasant emotions, and bring a learning mindset to challenges that can otherwise feel overwhelming. Leading Outside Your Comfort Zone draws on a wide body of research to show how well-being and resilience emerges from this struggle; leaders grow by adopting a learning mindset in spite of daily annoyances. Leadership professor D. Christopher Kayes explains how to: Confidently face new challenges. Accelerate progress toward goals. Improve productivity during discouraging, "unfruitful" periods. Overcome frustration with difficult personalities and organizational politics. Build confidence and a mindset of stressless productivity. Build resilience throughout the organization. Professor Kayes integrates insights from diverse disciplines, including management and organization studies, psychology, sports and military psychology, and neuroscience, and draws on 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" -- Jacket flap.
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