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Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps
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Unlocking Leadership Mindtraps

How to Thrive in Complexity

Jennifer Garvey Berger
Stanford UP, 2019

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Editorial Rating

9

Qualities

  • Scientific
  • Applicable
  • Concrete Examples

Recommendation

Executive Jennifer Garvey Berger synthesizes the most salient points from her two previous, well-respected reference books on adult development into one slim volume. She adds the fictitious tale of a professional power couple and their adviser to show the dangers of five common mental traps that snare leaders. Each one causes you to filter out information, opinions, data and even irrefutable facts that don’t align with your narrative, your opinion or your ego. This smart self-help book rises well above its genre in its accessible but sophisticated treatment of adult growth.

Take-Aways

  • For thousands of years, instincts – which evolution honed – helped humans survive. Today, those instincts threaten your success at work and in life.
  • Five evolutionary “mindtraps” impair your decision making and effectiveness:
  • First, don’t get “trapped by simple stories.”

About the Author

Former business professor and current CEO Jennifer Garvey Berger also wrote Changing on the Job: Developing Leaders for a Complex World and Simple Habits for Complex Times: Powerful Practices for Leaders.

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