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You’ve heard about Carol Dweck’s fixed and growth mindsets. What is your mindset? We’ll cover the difference between a fixed mindset and a growth mindset so you can answer the question, What is your mindset?
Although you may not be conscious of them, you have powerful beliefs that affect what you want and whether you get it. In Mindset, psychologist and researcher Carol S. Dweck argues that one belief in particular can determine the course of much of your life, starting as early as your preschool years. It’s important that parents and teachers prioritize a growth mindset for kids. We’ll cover the characteristics of a growth mindset for kids, why it’s important, and how to cultivate it in this complete guide.
What is the best use of technology in business? Should the role of technology in business be large or minimal? We’ll cover the surprising statistics that say that the best businesses don’t list technology as a key factor in their success. Learn the best role of technology in business, from Jim Collins’s Good to Great.
What is the leadership mindset that great leaders like Jack Welch of GE and Lou Gerstner of IBM have in common? How can you learn to make that leadership mindset your own? We’ll cover the leadership mindset that top CEOs share and look at examples of CEOs that lacked this leadership mindset…and failed miserably.
What’s the essential sports mindset to meet your athletic potential? What sports mindset do the greatest athletes have in common? We’ll cover the growth mindset as it pertains to sports and explore how your sports mindset is often just as important, if not more important, than talent when it comes to being an exceptional athlete.
What makes a business successful? How can you turn a good business into a great one? In the process of analyzing and coding the various facets of the good-to-great companies and their comparisons, Jim Collins and his team were clued into key concepts by a number of surprising differences. Learn what makes a business successful, from Good to Great.
As parents, we want to praise our kids, but is praising children doing more harm than good? We’ll cover the negative consequences of praising children and discuss how to praise a child in a way that encourages a growth mindset rather than a fixed one.
What are the keys to effective employee management? How do you ensure that your team is professional and disciplined while also being creative and innovative? We’ll cover the most powerful tools of employee management to help you revolutionize your company, from Jim Collins’s book Good to Great.
What business mindsets do the greatest leaders have in common? How does the right mindset help you succeed in business, and what can the most successful people teach you about adopting the right business mindset? We’ll cover the business mindset of exceptional leaders such as Jack Welch and Lou Gerstner and explore how your personal business mindset leads to success for your entire company. This is the growth mindset for business.
What is the “crawl-walk-run” approach to business? Why is it especially important to take this approach when it comes to technology? Good-to-great companies engage with groundbreaking technologies in a very specific way: Rather than bet the house on the technology itself, they think deeply about how the technology can serve the company’s Hedgehog Concept. A good rule of thumb is to follow the “crawl, walk, run” approach—slow down and think about how a technology can help you realize your Hedgehog Concept, then move carefully toward a strategy. Once the strategy is in place and chugging along, however, don’t be afraid