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The Art of Authenticity: Tools to Become an Authentic Leader and Your Best Self by Karissa Thacker
Leverage your authentic self into a valuable leadership strategy.
The Art of Authenticity is a guide to becoming a better leader by achieving your best self. All people bring different sides of themselves to various situations. This book will show you how to broaden and deepen your effectiveness by presenting the most appropriate side of yourself. Dr. Karissa Thacker is the management psychologist called on by over two hundred Fortune 500 companies to work with high potential leaders. This book provides you with her expert guidance, based on validated psychological research and artful application of psychological principles to actual business situations, to help you become an authentic leader. You'll learn how to lead through reflection, action, and conscious choice, and how to maintain your guiding principles while effectively leading your team. By replacing habitual reactions with authentic ones, you'll find that you're modelling good behavior and effective decision-making―and that authenticity is contagious. This guide equips you with the tools and skills you need to be the catalyst of positive change your organization needs.
How do you remain authentic while being an effective leader? This book argues that the question isn't a duality. Authenticity is the best way to lead, and the only way to maintain sustainable success as an organization. This insightful guide shows you how to find your authentic self, and leverage that into an effective, executable leadership strategy.
Become authentic in a way that befits your values
Show loyalty, honesty, ethics, and consideration
Maintain authenticity in leadership roles
Make conscious choices instead of blind reactions
Some are born to lead, other must be taught, but all leaders must work to retain their own values and basic sense of self. A simple pause can mean the difference between a knee-jerk reaction and an authentic decision, and the effects ripple throughout your organization. The Art of Authenticity is your guidebook to finding the true authentic leader within, and leading from the inside out for the long #haul.
Who is this #remarkablewomen?
Marissa Thacker is the founder and president of Strategic Performance Solutions, Inc., a management consulting firm creating innovative solutions in the space of human performance and job satisfaction. She serves as adjunct faculty for the Lerner School of Business at the University of Delaware, is a graduate of the Certificate in Positive Psychology program and is the author of The Art of Authenticity.
Why Authenticity Matters
Karissa Thacker begins her talk with an anecdote. She was discussing why authentic leadership matters with a reporter, when the reporter asked about authentic asshole bosses. This memory leads Thacker to consider the source of the widespread negativity in workplaces, when the drive to positive authenticity seems actually wired into humans. She describes a manner of short-circuiting -- when we adapt to frightening or threatening forces in the real word, we armor up. That armor becomes habitual and negative. She even describes her own armor, and how over time, it became a habit, closing off many opportunities for authenticity. Eventually she realised that she was not following the 2 real principles of authenticity: 1 -- Stay in touch with what really matters. Slow down and take your own measure. 2 -- Summon the courage and stand up and follow through when it matters. Being authentic is not easy -- showing up as your real self is an art, that requires facing fear and conquering it.
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