The Mindset of Success ^{2nd Ed.}

The Mindset of Success shows how you can acquire the seven mindsets of the most successful leaders. By acquiring simple habits of mind, you can perform better and learn how to:

• turn crises into opportunities
• be the leader people want to follow
• become more resilient
• deal with conflict
• achieve more with less
• influence people and decisions that you do not control
• adapt and succeed at every stage of your career

Once you have the mindset difference, you have an advantage that will last a lifetime and work for you time and time again. This unique book will help you open up new career possibilities and achieve far more than you could have imagined. The Mindset of Success is based on original research from spies to sport, education to entrepreneurs, in business and beyond. It shows how the best leaders in any field think and behave differently from those who are merely very good.

This second edition has been updated with cutting-edge research from neuroscience and new, original and practical cases. It now shows how your mindset advantage changes as you move through your career. The book provides specific advice and guidance on how to use mindset to accelerate your career from first-time manager to senior executive.

• Introduction

1. High aspirations: Dare to dream
• High aspirations: what they are, and what they are not
• What blocks us from having high aspirations?
• How to develop and deploy high aspirations
• Summary
2. Courage: Dare to act
• The nature of risk
• How to build your courage mindset
• Summary
3. Resilience: Stay the course
• Dealing with adversity: the example of POWs
• The leader's guide to dealing with setbacks and adversity
• Building resilience for the long haul
• Building resilience for the long haul: the dangerous dead ends
• Effective ways to build resilience for the long haul
• Building super-resilience: anti-fragility
• Summary
4. Positive: Believe in better
• Live longer, live better
• Why positive leadership works
• How can you build and use your positive mindset
• Summary
5. Accountability: Control your destiny
• Three mindsets: accountable, corporate and victim
• The beliefs of the accountability mindset
• Develop your accountability mindset
• Summary
6. Collaborative mindset: Succeed through others
• Build your influence across the organization
• Build your team
• Maintain and grow your team
• Be a partner, not a child
• Summary
7. Growth: Adapt to thrive
• Why a growth mindset is important
• What stops us growing: the prisons of our minds
• Building your growth mindset
• Summary
8. The dark side: Beware the demons
• The ruthless leader
• The sociopath as leader
• The demons of the seven mindsets of success
• Summary
9. Mindset and your leadership journey: Accelerate your career
• Managing self
• Managing others
• Managing a function
• Managing a business: top leadership
• Managing a group: beyond top leadership
• Mindset at the very top
• Summary

• Conclusion