Leading With Mindfulness

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When you are at peace with yourself, with your inner self, you are alive. When you are flexible in how you live your life, you are alive. You are living, not just existing.

That is how mindful leaders lead their lives. They focus on what is important to them. They are not after what is trending. They are after what is alive, not after what is popular.

According to Keren Tsuk, ‘A mindful leader is a leader who can go beyond the day-to-day activities and connect both to the broader picture and to higher purpose. This means cultivating the ability to be in being, at presence, to listening, and to pausing alongside our doing.’

‘Mindful leadership offers a holistic view that embodies a great deal of flexibility for employees and considers their personal needs.’

‘Organizational control is achieved through existential empowerment, through which employees bring their personal ways of work to the organizational space.’

‘Letting go of control means giving employees space and freedom of action to bring their uniqueness into play with their work.’

‘A key practice of leadership today is giving people room to realize themselves, room to deliver creative ideas and innovation.’

Confidence begins when people believe they are capable of coping with the challenges they face, even if they do not know how to face them.’

‘Self-awareness allows us to shift because it allows us to practice in a way that is fundamentally adaptable, cutting out the noise of everything else.’

‘Authentic human connection at work … holds people accountable in a way that a team does not; it allows us to step out of our characters and into ideas that are more valuable, more aligned with innovation.’

‘Mindful leadership … is characterized by an inward awareness of the self-awareness of the self and an outward awareness of a need for supporting the development of others.’

‘A mindful leader … is driven by service for the purpose of business and not only by motives of power or money.’

‘A growth mindset sees everything we do as another experience that allows growth and development as a leader.’

Source:

Keren Tsuk (2021). Mindfully Wise Leadership: The Secret of Today’s Leaders

10 Ways To Lead Like A World-Class Leader

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To know more, ask great questions. To achieve more, to get to the top of your career, you must have the courage to go after what you want, to ask for what you want.

You must have the energy to go after what you want. And you must have the faith to go after what you want.

The question is, ‘Do you know what you really want?’ If you know what you want, then go for it. What are you waiting for?

You must, according to Elena and Kim, ‘Look back. Learn from your past decisions.’

‘Look inward. Ensure you are physically and mentally ready to make clearheaded decisions.’

‘Operate with personal consistency.’

‘Take a mind-set of radical accountability.’

‘Get curious and ask questions.’

‘Invest in your relationship with your boss and her boss.’

‘Rock the boat- for the sake of the business results.’

‘Ask for what you want.’

‘Know where stars are needed.’

‘Overinvest in figuring out what you walked into. What you do not know will hurt you.’

Source:

Elena L. Botelho & Kim R. Powell (2018). The CEO Next Door: The 4 Bahviors That Transform Ordinary People- Into World-Class Leaders