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Bankable Leadership
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Bankable Leadership

Happy People, Bottom-Line Results, and the Power to Deliver Both

Greenleaf Book Group, 2013 Mehr

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7

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Recommendation

Leaders think they must either be warm and fuzzy so employees like them, or ruthless and driven so employees fear them. Performance suffers when leaders worry more about losing friendships than achieving results. Conversely, leaders who focus solely on the bottom line cause low morale, employee burnout and high turnover. Dr. Tasha Eurich, an organizational psychologist, shows leaders how to balance the needs of their people with company performance goals and how to “be human and drive performance, be helpful and drive responsibility, be thankful and drive improvement,” and “be happy and drive productivity.” Eurich deliberately treads quite familiar territory, but she provides quite useful advice on being a more effective, “bankable leader.” getAbstract recommends her guidance to anyone, at whatever level, who supervises others.

Take-Aways

  • “Bankable leaders” balance employees’ needs with organizational performance goals.
  • They “manage the universal tension between focusing on people and delivering results.”
  • As a leader, seek the proper equilibrium in the tensions inherent in four sets of extremes:

About the Author

Organizational psychologist Tasha Eurich, known as “Dr. T” to her clients, is a consultant in leadership and team training. An instructor at the Center for Creative Leadership, she speaks often at the MBA programs at the University of Denver and Colorado State University.


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