Breaking 10 Leadership Bad Habits: A Field Guide for How Business Executives Can Achieve Both Personal and Professional Success and Significance
Breaking 10 Leadership Bad Habits: A Field Guide for How Business Executives Can Achieve Both Personal and Professional Success and Significance
Jeffery Doolittle | 2022
Abstract
Leadership bad habits are not destiny. Effective leadership makes a difference in the personal and professional results you achieve and the life you live. Leaders must continually transform and adapt or fall behind. The best organizations are made up of the best leaders. Leaders with closed minds and organizations closed to new ideas quickly fall behind and become obsolete in a fast-paced digital workplace. All leaders need to continually develop at a pace consistent with the change in the world. Business executives desire to achieve both success and significance in life and at work. However, privately, they question if it is possible given the expectations from their board members, shareholders, and key stakeholders. Often success and significance appear to be competing priorities and opposite ends on a continuum. Striving for better habits is a competitive advantage available to any leader looking for a powerful point of differentiation.
Breaking: To stop or bring to an end suddenly; To cause to discontinue a habit.
Bad: Failing to reach an acceptable standard; Morally objectionable; unsuited to a purpose.
Hab·its : Routines, patterns, or practices performed regularly; automatic responses to a specific situation.
This breakthrough book,Breaking 10 Leadership Bad Habits: A Field Guide for How Business Executives Can Achieve Both Personal and Professional Success and Significance,by Jeff Doolittle equips you with the latest proven research and field-tested solutions on how to bring out your best and be the leader you want to be, and the world needs you to be. These ideas are grounded in fields of psychology, philosophy, biology, and neuroscience. This books contribution is synthesizing the best ideas and new connections of ideas into a reference guide in highly practical ways to break the ten most challenging bad habits that derail high potential leaders, executives, and business owners.
This field guide is not designed to comprehensively identify every way a bad habit shows up in the workplace. Instead, to help executives focus on the pressing readily visible ways in which a bad habit shows up for them. This book provides case studies and illustrations to aid habit identification across a vice-virtue continuum. Chapters conclude with transformational tools and exercises, key summary points, and a few reflective questions to expand your thinking on breaking the bad habit.
While the work, worker, and workplace are continually changing, the bad habits and proven solutions identified in this book are timeless. Leaders can rely on the lasting principles year over year to grow personally and professionally. You can utilize these principles to build a career, business, and life.
Keywords: Leadership Development, Habits, Business, Vices, Virtues