Leading Beyond Fear: The Formula for Psychological Safety, Adaptability, and Growth, reviewed

We look at this business book from Neil Pretty  See more about Leading Beyond Fear here. 

Leading Beyond Fear: The Formula for Psychological Safety, Adaptability, and Growth, reviewed

Leaders can be more humble, with positive results for employees. At the same time, we have a pushback about employees rights, diversity, ethics, and what’s best for the planet. There are B-Corps, and then there are drill baby drill attitudes towards the planet, people, and everything inbetween. The author, Pretty, talks about authentic leadership, with a lot of common sense and an understandable series of important values. It can seem paradoxical that, at the same time we live in a world with so many self serving leaders, clearly out for their own gain and little else.

Petty lays down good ideas of how to do the right thing, and how to do it well. There are lots of good strategies, and if only more leaders were open enough and interested to follow these approaches then we could be looking at much better run organisations, with happier workforces too.

More about the book

A real-world guide to modern day leadership with a strong focus on building an inspiring workplace culture

In Leading Beyond Fear: The Formula for Psychological Safety, Innovation, and Growth, author Neil Pretty explains the foundations of inspiring and effective leadership. The book is a comprehensive walkthrough and field guide offering a holistic, one-stop resource for leaders at any level that builds on key components of culture, psychological safety, developing relationships, and scaling your influence.

Pretty demonstrates how to tackle the recurring challenges you face every day, as well as the novel and entirely unique obstacles that can feel like they come out of nowhere. He shows you how to confidently draw on your experience, build new skills, and access your talents to guide your team, make sound decisions, and access the best thinking in the talent that surrounds you.

Inside the book:

Strategies for shifting your mindset and evolving as a leader to build confidence, humility, influence, and greater comfort with the unknown. Techniques to fulfill your leadership potential and operationalize the most critical skills needed to generate team performance, thrive as a leader, and authentically navigate the modern workplace.
How to take advantage of critical moments, build psychological safety, foster growth, and evolve as a “cultural architect” who can effectively scale your influence through others.

Perfect for executives, entrepreneurs, founders, managers, aspiring leaders, and culture architects working to build better business while improving the experience of the workplace, Leading Beyond Fear is a must-read for professionals, and anyone else ready to revolutionize their approach to leading.

More about the author

Neil Pretty is the co-founder of Aristotle Performance and a leadership consultant who has worked with organizations in more than 25 countries on 6 continents. He’s an experienced leader, entrepreneur and polymath, who has trained and certified hundreds of consultants and several thousand leaders. Pretty’s work is focused on helping leaders build psychological safety as the foundation for high-performance, adaptability and innovation.

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