Safe to Great: The New Psychology of Leadership
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Safe to Great: The New Psychology of Leadership
By (Author) Skip Bowman
Foreword by Martha Freymann Miser
Figure 1 Publishing
Figure 1 Publishing
3rd January 2024
Canada
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Working patterns and practices
Organizational theory and behaviour
Personnel and human resources management
Management: leadership and motivation
Development economics and emerging economies
Physical Properties
Hardback
160
Width 139mm, Height 215mm
Description
How do todays leaders move from playing it safe to playing for great
In a volatile time of climate crisis, global pandemics, and disruptive technologies, leaders may find themselves clinging to fear-based mindsets that favor individualism over collectivism inadvertently controlling their teams rather than inspiring genuine commitment in them. To navigate uncertainty and seize emerging opportunities, leaders must move toward a more facilitative, enabling approach that centers on purpose before profit and the team before the individual.
In Safe to Great, consultant, keynote speaker, and author Skip Bowman outlines an integrated organizational and leadership development process for implementing a growth mindset based on psychological safety. Grounded in more than 25 years of experience working with global organizations, Bowmans model unites theory and practice in a set of principles designed to meet the opportunities and challenges of leading and organizing in the twenty-first century and beyond.
Bowman looks to the concept of psychological safety, as described in Amy C. Edmondsons work on fearless organizations, to examine how a workplace that tolerates risk and exhibits a willingness to experiment can facilitate high levels of innovation. The tenets of a growth mindset, as popularized by Carol Dweck, also serve as a guiding philosophy: Bowman urges organizations to take a generative approach to managing people and resources, putting at least much back as they extract. In this relational model, success rests on the combined achievements and developmental growth of the collective rather than on the accumulation of power and wealth by a single executive or small group of stakeholders.
Conversational in tone and packed with big hopes and uncomfortable truths, Safe to Great makes an impassioned appeal for a new standard of leadership that will move people and organizations from a place of relative comfort and little risk to a space of daring curiosity, engagement, and collaboration.
Author Bio
Skip Bowman is author, consultant and keynote speaker focusing on how to transform organizations with a growth mindset and psychological safety. Australian-born and Europe-based, he has worked with global organizations for over 25 years developing unique programs and approaches that are captured in his recently released Safe2Great concept.
