Drawn to Leadership
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Recent Issues
2024 in Review ✍🏻 Drawn to Leadership
In 2024, I expanded my professional network, co-founded a tech leadership community, embraced facilitative leadership, and achieved personal milestones like completing a half marathon. So here's my personal commentary on this year - and what has energized me in 2024.
Explorers, Villagers, and Town Planners ✍🏻 Drawn to Leadership
Startups require different skills (aptitude) and mindsets (attitude) than corporations. Simon Wardley identified three essential mindsets necessary for success: Explorers, Villagers, and Town Planners. Companies benefit from having all three mindsets.
Flow ✍🏻 Drawn to Leadership
Through flow, individuals enter a state of presence in which they perform at their best. But the psychologist Csikszentmihalyi argued that flow is also a state of great psychological well-being. Bringing flow into the workplace requires good leadership.
Trust at Work ✍🏻 Drawn to Leadership
You can easily tell when trust has been broken. But what exactly is trust? In this issue, we look at a framework for trust, the four skills needed to master trust, and how leaders can apply these concepts in the workplace to foster better collaboration.
Well-Being Theory ✍🏻 Drawn to Leadership
Martin Seligman created Well-Being Theory and the PERMA model as a framework to better understand how well-being can help us thrive. Learn how leaders can apply these concepts to their organizations.