KEEP YOUR FOCUS: 40 Thought-Pieces on Maintaining Your Top Performance

✍ Scribed by Sarah Arnot Mulhern

• Publisher: KR Publishing
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 151
• Edition: Illustrated
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Sarah Arnot has established one of the world’s most comprehensive leadership assessment and executive development programmes. For the past 25 years she’s helped hundreds of CEOs and executive leaders to significantly improve their skills, performance and, most importantly, their job satisfaction. 

 

This book is a collection of her most useful leadership research findings, distilled into a 40 bite-sized leadership lessons. These briefings are perfect for leaders who are chronically short on reading and research time. They unlock the latest thinking about learning, leadership, decision-making and growth to help executives “move the dial” on leadership. 

If you’re looking to reach your full potential or push your boundaries and improve as a leader – KEEP YOUR FOCUS: 40 Thought-Pieces on Maintaining Your Top Performance will give you insights you can apply straight away.

Buy this book to read on the plane or to keep on your desk as a reference. KEEP YOUR FOCUS: 40 Thought-Pieces on Maintaining Your Top Performance is a valuable resource to dip into when you need inspiration or to be reminded of what’s important as a leader.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
ENDORSEMENTS
Full Title Page
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
INTRODUCTION
Part 1: MINDSET
FEAR AND COURAGE
Fear
Courage
Fear of failure
Vulnerability
Setting Intentions
Imposter Syndrome
Tony Blair Syndrome
The Cloak of Power
Part 2: SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE
Social Intelligence – Dimensions of SocialIntelligence
What is social intelligence?
Social intelligence – self-awareness
Social intelligence – self- management
Self-distancing
Social intelligence – choose your mentors
Social intelligence – Don’t underestimatethe introverts
Part 3: DIVERSITY
A South African Story
Celebrating Diversity
Women in Leadership
Ethical Leadership
Part 4: WELLBEING
Loss and Grief
Man’s Search For Meaning
Meditation
On Sleep
Part 5: STRATEGY AND DECISION MAKING
Strategy and Purpose
Decisions and Judgement
Distilling Extreme Ownership
Part 6: PEOPLE
On Leadership Capital
Potential
Who’s going to lead? A short series onhiring and growing talent
Who? Identifying A-Players
Who? Hiring A-Players
Part 7: ROLE OF THE CEO
Reputation and Personal Brand
CEO Succession Planning – Case Studyfrom a JSE Listed Company
CEO pressures – long-termism versusshort-termism
What only the CEO can do
Part 8: HABITS (Revisited)
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Part Two – Habits 1 - 3
Part Three – Habits 4-6
Part Four – Habit 7
Part 9: STRANGE TIMES
Motivation and emotion in a time oflockdown
Part 10: THE LEADERSHIP JOURNEY
The Leadership Journey – the next book
CONCLUSION
LIST OF SOURCES
INDEX
BACK COVER