Grounded: How
Leaders Stay Rooted in an Uncertain World by Bob Rosen
Genre: Leadership and Business
Life
is a series of interconnecting points.
People, places, and actions come and go, converging and diverging at
different seasons of life. Every
once in a while a book crosses your path at the perfect time, it’s wisdom
converging with your strive to learn at just the right time and place. Grounded was that for me.
The
lessons from Grounded are not the smoothest nor the most original, but they
cut deep to the core of what our world needs: genuine leadership in a chaotic
world.
Genuine
leadership is holistic, driven by integrity, and achieved by the emotionally
intelligent. Genuine leadership
understands that to lead people, you must first be able to lead yourself. Genuine leadership is about balance and
the ability to view your people as your most valuable asset in achieving
success, and not just as cogs in the big corporate machine.
Grounded
is about living a life of curiosity, being authentic to yourself and others,
and letting go of ego in favor of confidence. Confidence not just in yourself but also in others, in what
you are trying to achieve, and in the world around you.
The
steady winds of change uproot all of those who are not rooted in strong and
well-balanced ground, engaging those around you to grow beyond what even they
think they are capable of.
Golden Nuggets:
- “Your
brain becomes accustomed to handling challenges to your emotional life. It’s like the immune system – it gets
stronger as it’s exposed to more challenges and contaminants and while learning
to adapt.” P. 95
- “If
you have a growth mindset, you see life as a journey that requires continual
growth along the way. With this
attitude, you seek out new experiences, regularly broaden your knowledge and
abilities, and remain open to change and new ideas.” P. 119
- “With
lifelong learning, life becomes an adventure, giving us something to look
forward to, a purpose and goal. It
is life with no regrets.” P. 192
- “An
irony of life is that we all possess a higher purpose, yet many of use have no
idea what it is.” P. 219
Rating: 5/5 Bookmarks
http://bobrosen.com/books/grounded/overview/
