The Art of Authenticity E-Book

Karissa Thacker

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 398

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

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 modeling 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.

Leseprobe

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Preface

Part I: A New Vision of Authenticity

Chapter 1: The Digital Era of Freedom and Fear

The Call to Authenticity

On Becoming More Authentic

The Particular Challenges of Now and How Did We Get Here?

The Dawn of the Digital Age

Digital Era = Fear + Freedom

Responding to the Challenges of Freedom and Fear

The Workouts

Chapter 2: Signature Contributions vs. Conformity

Celebrate Your Quirks

The More Experiments the Better

The Upside of Your Weaknesses

Meaning Matters

The Workouts

Chapter 3: Truth, Lies, and Authenticity

Seeing the Multiple Choice Questions

Killing the Dead Bug View of Truth

Big Fat Whoppers and Sweet Little Lies

The Truth About Authenticity

The Workouts

Part II: The Science of Authenticity

Chapter 4: Followers Beware…of Charisma

The Perceived Power of Charisma

Two Flavors of Charisma

Conversations That Matter

The Authenticity Continuum

The Workouts

Chapter 5: Self-Awareness or is it Selves Awareness?

Selves Awareness and the Case of the Bossy CFO

Are You a Chameleon?

Fixed Traits, Free Traits, and Real People

The Ideal Self, the Current Self, and Lots in Between

The Workouts

Chapter 6: Balanced Processing and Collaborative Decision Making

What Is Balanced Processing?

Get in Balanced Processing Gear or Not

Three Tricky Words for Leaders

Hire a Brilliant Antagonist or Three

Know and Own All Your Biases

Have a Big Ego and Put It on the Shelf

The Workouts

Chapter 7: Relational Transparency and Honest Conversations

The Value of Honest Conversation

Transparency That Creates Business Results

Emotional Transparency Matters, Too

The Myth of Total Transparency

The Age of Transparency

General Practical Rules of the Transparency Road

The Challenge of Transparency

The Workouts

Chapter 8: Internalized Moral Perspective/An Active, Unique GPS System

Prisons, Orderly Stages, and Elephants

Putting Up Psychological Guardrails

The One Thing

The Workouts

Part III: The Master Class

Chapter 9: The Centrality of Conscious Choice

Debunking Popeye's Version of Authenticity

The Reality of Authenticity

Choosing Authentic Action

Choose to Experiment

Choose to Notice the Novel

In Closing

The Workouts

Chapter 10: How to Read Culture Like an Anthropologist

Practical Anthropology Via iPhone

Is the Organization Working to Be More Authentic?

Figuring Out Fit

The Mind-Set of a Corporate Anthropologist

The Workouts

Chapter 11: How to Make Peace with Paradox

Who Are You (Really)?

Three Selves That Won't Magically Align

Authentic Leadership Is a State of Mind

The Workouts

Chapter 12: How to Ferociously Seek the Truth (When Everyone Is Framing and Spinning)

The Truth Serum Question

The Trust Meter Is Always Running

In Search of a Virtue Buzz

Self-Defining Moments

The Workouts

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Index

End User License Agreement

Guide

Cover

Table of Contents

Begin Reading

Part 1

Chapter 1

Pages

i

ii

iii

iv

v

vi

xi

xii

xiii

xiv

xv

xvi

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

31

32

33

34

35

36

37

38

39

40

41

42

43

44

45

46

47

48

49

50

51

52

53

54

55

56

57

58

59

60

61

62

63

64

65

66

67

68

69

70

71

72

73

74

75

76

77

78

79

80

81

82

83

84

85

86

87

88

89

90

91

92

93

94

95

96

97

98

99

100

101

102

103

104

105

106

107

108

109

110

111

112

113

114

115

116

117

118

119

120

121

122

123

124

125

126

127

128

129

130

131

132

133

134

135

136

137

138

139

140

141

142

143

144

145

146

147

148

149

150

151

152

153

154

155

156

157

158

159

160

161

162

163

164

165

166

167

168

169

170

171

172

173

174

175

176

177

178

179

180

181

182

183

184

185

186

187

188

189

190

191

192

193

194

195

196

197

198

199

200

209

210

211

212

213

214

215

216

217

218

219

220

221

222

223

224

The Art of Authenticity

Tools to Become an Authentic Leader and Your Best Self

Dr. Karissa Thacker

Cover design: Paul McCarthyCover image: Real sheep: © Getty Images / FusePlastic sheep: © Getty Images / Juzant

Copyright © 2016 by Strategic Performance Solutions, Inc. All rights reserved.

Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.

Published simultaneously in Canada.

No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, [phone], fax [phone], or on the Web at www.copyright.com. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, [phone], fax [phone], or online at www.wiley.com/go/permissions.

Limit of Liability/Disclaimer of Warranty: While the publisher and author have used their best efforts in preparing this book, they make no representations or warranties with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the contents of this book and specifically disclaim any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. No warranty may be created or extended by sales representatives or written sales materials. The advice and strategies contained herein may not be suitable for your situation. You should consult with a professional where appropriate. Neither the publisher nor the author shall be liable for damages arising herefrom.

For general information about our other products and services, please contact our Customer Care Department within the United States at [phone], outside the United States at [phone] or fax [phone].

Wiley publishes in a variety of print and electronic formats and by print-on-demand. Some material included with standard print versions of this book may not be included in e-books or in print-on-demand. If this book refers to media such as a CD or DVD that is not included in the version you purchased, you may download this material at http://booksupport.wiley.com. For more information about Wiley products, visit www.wiley.com.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Names: Thacker, Karissa, author.

Title: The art of authenticity: tools to become an authentic leader and your best self/Dr. Karissa Thacker.

Description: Hoboken: Wiley, 2016. | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015040938| ISBN 9781119153429 (hardback) | ISBN 9781119153467 (ePDF) | ISBN 9781119153542 (ePub)

Subjects: LCSH: Leadership—Psychological aspects. | BISAC: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Leadership.

Classification: LCC HD57.7 .T4643 2016 | DDC 658.4/092—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015040938

Dedication

This book is dedicated to my clients, who struggle to create extraordinary business results and be true to themselves. It is not an easy struggle, but it is well worth it.

Preface

If you would have told me three years ago that I would be writing a book on authenticity, of all things, I would have laughed. The topic made me feel vaguely uncomfortable. I have often felt that being my true self was in conflict with meeting my goals, which were also a part of me; not in big ways, but in small ways that felt slowly corrosive. (And I have never done anything remotely criminal aside from speeding.)

What changed? My intellectual and emotional curiosity about the topic got aroused during a continuing education program. After that workshop, I began to dig deeply into the work of Bill George, Robert Terry, and the foundational modern research on authenticity of social psychologists Michael Kernis and Brian Goldman. I discovered a rich body of literature and a topic that provoked incredible conversations. I started talking to my clients about the topic and trying to understand their views in casual conversations. I discovered I was not alone in this struggle to be true to myself and meet my goals, nor in feeling a vague sense of discomfort around the topic for similar reasons.