Leading with Less Ego

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Harvard Business Review

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🗓️ 21 March 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter, of the global consulting firm Potential Project, make their case for mindfulness, selflessness, and compassion in leadership. Their survey of 30,000 leaders showed those characteristics are foundational — and often missing from leadership development programs. Practicing self-awareness, they say, leads to more focused and more people-focused organizations. They’re the authors of the new book, “The Mind of the Leader: How to Lead Yourself, Your People, and Your Organization for Extraordinary Results."

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0:00.0	Kurt Nick is here from Ideacast. I want to tell you about the Big Take
0:05.1	podcast from Bloomberg News. Each weekday they bring you one important story
0:10.0	from their global newsroom like how AI will upend your life and why China's
0:15.4	targeting the US dollar. Check out the big take from Bloomberg wherever you
0:20.2	listen. Welcome to the HBRI idea cast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Sarah Green Carmichael. Before interviewing today's experts on selfless compassionate leadership.
0:54.0	I'm going to spend five minutes doing their exercise and becoming more selfless.
0:59.2	While normally I would do this silently, today I'm going to think out loud. So I'm setting a timer on my
1:06.1	phone and while I will spend five minutes doing this we will edit it to speed it up.
1:13.3	And for just a moment, I'm just gonna pay attention to my breath.
1:18.9	Now, consider the people who made today possible for you.
1:24.0	That would be my husband.
1:27.0	Let's see, the people at work today who came to all my meetings and participated. Step five, allow a realistic sense of
1:36.2	humility to arise. The world will keep spinning even if I'm not around, life will
1:40.4	go on. All right, so now I'm just going to sit for a minute with a sense of gratitude. That's the last step.
1:46.8	Grateful for all you awesome listeners out there without whom I could not do any of this? Okay, so, feeling good.
1:58.0	I feel like I should do that before every interview.
2:01.0	This is just one of a few mindfulness practices that our guests today,
2:05.4	Rosamos-Hugard, and Jacqueline Carter, encourage people to do every day because in the
2:10.2	research and consulting work they've done, they've found that training the mind is key to a leader's effectiveness.
2:17.0	They've written a guide to being more mindful, selfless, and compassionate.
2:22.0	The book is called The Mind of the Leader and they're here to talk about
2:25.2	how developing these characteristics will improve engagement and performance at work, both for you and the people that you
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