Mindset Towards Mastery: Responsibility, Performance, and the Work of Becoming - Couverture souple

Finlayson, Andrew

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1066603014 ISBN 13 : 9781066603015

Editeur : taijenga studios, 2026

Synopsis

Don't fail at leadership because no one told you the rules had changed.

You built a career on being the best individual contributor in the room. Then one day you are handed a team, and the very skills that got you promoted stop working. Mindset Towards Mastery exists for that exact moment: the career transition to leadership that almost no one prepares you for.

• Proven ways to turn ordinary workplace moments into deliberate growth
• Earn trust from people who used to be your peers, without pretending the relationship hasn't changed
• Learn to recognise disengagement before it becomes attrition
• How to lead with authority you have not yet grown into without overcompensating
• A companion built to be revisited as the challenges of leadership change faster

Challenge the belief that leadership is something you either have, or you don't.

Mindset Towards Mastery is written by a senior leader with decades of experience guiding real teams under real pressure. It guides new managers and ambitious professionals through the exact career transition to leadership that most people are left to figure out alone, drawing on real stories and psychological insight into the people you are now responsible for. The junior hire still finding her footing. The colleague who used to be your peer. The team member quietly disengaged and waiting to be noticed. Leadership means meeting all of them differently, and it starts with a shift in your own mindset before it changes theirs.

229 questions designed to expose how you actually think.

Across fourteen chapters, this leadership mindset guide explores focus, loyalty, self-worth, and the moments that decide whether someone grows into a leader or stalls as a contributor. Each chapter pairs real workplace stories with reflections that turn insight into habit, sharpening the emotional intelligence that separates a manager from a leader.

Leadership that looks like every workplace, not just the office.

The people in these pages are not confined to boardrooms. Claire rebuilds trust on a struggling factory line. Anjali leads a patient roundtable in an overwhelmed ward. Gabriella finds her feet in her first days in uniform. Zach steps up on an ambulance shift. Ashley holds a team together under a circus tent. Elsewhere, Lucy leads a rural construction crew, Rob runs a remote farm shed alone, and Tamsin keeps a design studio moving when it never stops. Over fifty named figures move through fourteen chapters, and the office is a minority among them. Whatever floor you lead on, someone in this book has stood there before you.

Real people, not case studies.

Drawing on decades of experience, hard-earned lessons, dozens of deep interviews and hundreds of coaching sessions, the people in this book are authentic. There is the recruit discovering her confidence, the charity leader coping under strain, and the shift worker imagining a future when the floor shifts beneath her. These are not composites built to prove a point. They are the lessons of real working lives.

Begin the journey of becoming, and lead the team your people are waiting for.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: taijenga studios
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1066603014
• ISBN 13: 9781066603015
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
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