Get a Growth Mindset and Enhance Your Leadership Skills
What I learned from Carol Dweck
In her book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, Carol Dweck talks about the difference between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset. In simple terms, someone with a growth mindset believes they can learn anything with practice and determination. Through hard work, progress will be made. Failure is part of learning. There is no shame in working hard.
In contrast, if someone has a fixed mindset, they believe that success in anything is dependent on talent. That talent is fixed for life and does not require any effort or practice. Needing to work hard at a task is shameful.
Intelligence, sporting ability, musical ability, people skills, practical skills, math, languages, and anything else you can imagine is governed, by either a growth mindset or a fixed mindset.
So how does this apply to leadership?
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“Studies by Peter Heslin, Don VandeWalle, and Gary Latham show that many managers do not believe in personal change. These fixed-mindset…
