Ruthlessly Caring: And Other Paradoxical Mindsets Leaders Need to Be Future-Fit - Hardcover

by Amy Walters Cohen (Author)

A startlingly insightful exploration of contemporary leadership

In Ruthlessly Caring: And other paradoxical mindsets leaders need to be future-fit, leadership strategist Amy Walters Cohen delivers a one-of-a-kind insight into contemporary business leadership. In the book, you'll explore how the leadership environment is being radically redefined by 12 megatrends and how five paradoxical mindsets are necessary to achieving high performance and effective decision making in this new era of business. From ambitious appreciation to political virtue, humble confidence, and responsible daring, you'll discover how to develop and expand your leadership identity. Whilst being heavily based in research, this revolutionary approach takes a practical look at the day-to-day realities of leading in business, offering fresh insight into how to tackle tough decisions, change behaviour, and evolve habits to become future-fit and thrive in a modern environment.

The author shows you how to:

• Weave together multiple, seemingly contradictory, mindsets to enhance decision making and day-to-day leadership
• Adapt to the megatrends that are driving much of the change we see throughout the world
• Shake up the thinking, habits, and behaviours that are holding you back from unleashing your full potential as a leader

An indispensable roadmap to leading modern organisations, Ruthlessly Caring is a must-read for c-suite executives, directors, senior managers, and aspiring business leaders who hope to perform well in their role and get the best out of themselves and the people they lead.

Front Jacket

Leading contemporary organisations requires a different set of mindsets and skills from the ones required by past generations of leaders. At least 12 megatrends are radically redefining the leadership environment and sustaining high performance is becoming increasingly difficult to do. It is not enough for leaders to just 'do what's always been done' but do it better and faster. To achieve high performance and effective decision making in this new era of business, a fundamental shift in leadership thinking and behaviour is required.

In Ruthlessly Caring, leadership strategist Amy Walters Cohen delivers a relentlessly insightful and practical exploration of what it means to lead in a 21st-century landscape. In the book, she explains the five paradoxical mindsets senior leaders must embrace to become more adaptable and aligned to the times, exploring how they can elevate their own and their organisation's performance by becoming: ruthlessly caring, ambitiously appreciative, politically virtuous, confidently humble, and responsibly daring.

The author examines the megatrends that are reshaping the world and creating a complex "washing machine" environment, where the presence of paradoxes is amplified; highlighting how navigating paradoxes, at both an organisational and individual level, is no longer a 'nice-to-have' but a necessity. Next, she dedicates a chapter to each paradoxical mindset before outlining how to become more adaptable by continuously developing and expanding your leadership identity.

This book will shake up the thinking, habits, and behaviours that are holding you back from unleashing your full potential as a leader. It is an essential resource for any executive, director, manager, or aspiring senior business leader who hopes to perform well in their role and get the best out of themselves and the people they lead.

Back Jacket

A STUNNINGLY EFFECTIVE SET OF NEW MINDSETS FOR CONTEMPORARY LEADERSHIP

Relentless change. Pressing global challenges. Mounting societal expectations. The world today's leaders are operating in is fundamentally different from that of previous generations. To sustain high performance, it won't be enough to 'do what's always been done'. Fresh thinking is required.

Ruthlessly Caring is a uniquely incisive discussion of how to lead contemporary organisations and successfully navigate this new era of business. You'll discover how the five mindsets --ruthlessly caring, ambitiously appreciative, politically virtuous, confidently humble, and responsibly daring -- can raise your leadership game to the next level.

Whilst based in research, Ruthlessly Caring takes a practical look at the day-to-day realities of leadership, offering fresh insight into how you can tackle tough decisions in the minefields of modern business.

This book won't make leadership easy, but it will help evolve and expand your thinking.

It is a must-read for any executive, director, manager, or aspiring senior leader who wants to get the best out of themselves and the people they lead, now and in the years to come.

Author Biography

AMY WALTERS COHEN is a Head of Research within one of the largest professional services networks in the world, and responsible for delivering rigorous, cutting-edge thought leadership insight into pressing business issues. With nearly 10 years' experience working in applied psychology, she has led an array of research projects and generated fresh insight into topic areas including: the future of leadership, digital transformation, the future of learning, hybrid working, 21st century career development, organisational culture change, and team performance in a disruptive age. Amy is also a visiting lecturer at the University of Bath.