Carter Jacqueline - The mind of the leader: how to lead yourself, your people, and your organization for extraordinary results

The Mind of the Leader captures the essence of truly human leadership in the digital agepeople deeply engaging people on what matters most in the moment. Imagine how transformative you will be when you deliberately give your full focus, attention, and energy to your passions.

NATHAN BOAZ, Senior Managing Director, Talent Strategy and Leadership Development, Accenture

The Mind of the Leader provides simple yet powerful strategies to help us be more focused, calm, and clear-minded in the face of todays business realities. It is an essential read for any leader who wants to enhance engagement and performance at the same time.

HELENA GOTTSCHLING, Chief Human Resources Officer, Royal Bank of Canada

If you aspire to be a more effective leader, you really should read this book. Do the books exercises too. Youll learn how to be more mindful, selfless, and compassionate. Not only will you improve as a leader, youll be become happier, kinder, and more fulfilled.

MARK R. TERCEK, President and CEO, the Nature Conservancy, and author of Natures Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature

The Mind of the Leader provides clear guidance on becoming a mindful leader, but also takes it a step further and introduces the practices of self lessness and compassion for leaders. In this way, the book describes the leadership of the future and how leaders enable true engagement, following, and passion.

SCOTT SHUTE, VP of Global Customer Operations and Head of Mindfulness Programs, LinkedIn

The Mind of the Leader provides a great roadmap for any leader to create real engagement and a sense of purpose for the people they lead. It goes to the heart of what it means to be a people-centric leader who shows up present, selfless, and with care for self and others. In a very disrupting world, it also lays out how to create great organizational cultures with strong trust and social cohesion.

TONY STUART, CEO, UNICEF Australia

In this beautifully constructed and deeply relatable book, Hougaard and Carter remind us of a deep and profound truth to unlock performance in organizations: the power of a leaders ability to bring presence and fulfill our most basic human needs for connection, meaning, and purpose in an increasingly busy and disconnected world.

PATRICIA WALLACE, Director, Leadership, Talent & Organization Development, Disney University

I was first exposed to methods of training the mind in a community setting and immediately saw benefits for me personally. Hougaard and Carter helped me and my organization see how these ancient mind-training tools were equally relevant in day-to-day work. In The Mind of the Leader , they have gone one step further and provide strategic guidance on how we as leaders can better lead ourselves, our people, and our organizations.

ASHWANI DAHIYA, Regional Vice President, Wells Fargo

The Mind of the Leader is a deep well of knowledge and insights about the essence of modern leadership. Leaders need to understand that employees do not want to be viewed as head count but want to be seen and treated as whole people. In this context, the qualities of mindfulness, self lessness, and compassion are essential traits in leadership.

PR STENMARK, Chief Regulatory Affairs Officer, IKEA Range & Supply

In this groundbreaking book, Hougaard and Carter turn traditional assumptions about leadership on their head and offer a fresh, inspiring, and deeply human vision for leadership a vision that this world dearly needs.

ANDY LEE, Chief Mindfulness Officer, Aetna

The Mind of the Leader challenges us to redefine our view of what makes a good leader. Drawing on their extensive experience in bringing mindfulness to organizations, Hougaard and Carter have skillfully laid out a well-structured leadership journey that starts with understanding our mind and training it to be more focused, service-oriented, and compassionate so we can help ourselves and our organizations realize more of their potential. If you want to apply mindfulness to yourself and/or your organization this is a must (and fun) read.

PETER BOSTELMANN, Director, SAP Global Mindfulness Practice

In The Mind of the Leader , Hougaard and Carter draw from their extensive personal and professional experience to offer practical guidance to bring about positive transformation in the lives of leaders, their professional colleagues, and the workplace. Proper leadership can play an enormous role in alleviating suffering, enriching humanity, and preserving the environment for generations to come.

B. ALAN WALLACE, President, Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies

Bringing greater mindfulness and empathetic understanding should really be at the heart of leadership at all levels. This book offers tested methods for how to do this. Anyone who is keen to develop a new way of leading, rooted in greater self-awareness, focus, and compassion, will benefit greatly from this remarkable book.

THUPTEN JINPA, PhD, founder of Compassion Institute, and author of A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives

The Mind of the Leader navigates the reader through much of what science has taught us about how our minds work, the dangers of being overly egoand threat-focused, and how to cultivate minds for creating happiness, meaning, and courage and to live by our principles. Anyone who follows the insights and practices of this outstanding book will give themselves, their colleagues, employees, organizations, and even the world around them ways to live and lead intelligently, effectively, ethically, creatively, and compassionately.

PAUL GILBERT, PhD, author of The Compassionate Mind and Overcoming Depression

The art of managing people starts with managing oneself. In The Mind of the Leader , Hougaard and Carter provides a clear roadmap for both. When leaders are good human beings, doing good for their people, their organizations will thrive.

ALBERTO RIBERA, Senior Lecturer of Managing People in Organizations, IESE Business School

We all know that leaders must continue to learn throughout their career. To do so, they must understand the way they currently function and the impact they have on others. The Mind of the Leader compellingly shows how improving organizations starts with improving self, which starts with understanding self.

JEAN-FRANOIS MANZONI, President and Nestl Professor, IMD Business School

The Mind of the Leader teaches us how to be a human before being a leader, and to show up authentically, with an intention of benefiting the people we lead and our clients. I have seen, time and again, that these principles are foundational for great leadership.

JACQUELINE GILLESPIE, Managing Director Leadership & Talent Consulting, Korn Ferry International

The Mind of the Leader is a roadmap for leaders to navigate the complex disciplines of leading self, people, and organizations. Hougaard and Carter clearly show how being a human before being a leader is foundational for creating people-centered organizations with strong engagement and productivity.

DOUARD-MALO HENRY, CHCO, Socit Gnrale Bank

The Mind of the Leader serves as a blueprint for how leaders can better foster employees professional growth, inspiring them to do the best work of their lives.

ERIC MOSLEY, founder and CEO, Globoforce

The Mind of the Leader provides tools for leaders to put people first. It provides a logical journey, starting with understanding the mind and then cultivating qualities to enhance presence, engagement, collaboration, and performance.

GISELA A. PAULSEN , Global Head, Product Development and Global Product Strategy Finance, Genentech

The Mind of the Leader lays out the management paradigm for the coming years. In the same way that our customers behavior is changing, our employees values and expectations are also changing. Traditional hierarchical, top-down leadership will not work anymore. To engage top performers, employees, and teams, we need to provide them with an environment that allows more self-management, generates more personal fulfillment, and shares a meaningful purpose. This book helps you develop into the leader whom successful organizations are already requiring.