Abundance Leaders

Creating Energy, Joy, and Productivity in an Unsettled World

Laura Freebairn-Smith

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John Wiley & Sons Inc
30 August 2023

Consultancy & grants for businesses; Management: leadership & motivation; Arbitration, mediation & alternative dispute resolution

Transform your ability to lead others with an abundance leadership mindset

In Abundance Leaders: Creating Energy, Joy, and Productivity in an Unsettled World, renowned management consultant and lecturer Laura Freebairn-Smith delivers a rigorous and practical discussion of energetic, joyful, and productive leadership. In the book, you’ll learn what sets leaders with an “abundance mindset” apart from those with a “scarcity mindset,” and why the former creates work environments that generate superior performance when compared to those created by the latter.

The author comprehensively explains the Abundance Leadership Model and convincingly demonstrates how it leads to immediate and tangible improvements in productivity and employee wellbeing. You’ll also find:

A list of 26 distinct behaviors that signal a manager or executive is working in an abundance leadership mindset Strategies for leading bravely, making big, impactful promises, and aligning your organization around its purpose Ways to shape the culture at your organization in ways that drive dramatic improvements to the bottom line and worker satisfaction

An essential resource for managers, executives, board members, and other business leaders, Abundance Leaders will also earn a place in the libraries of anyone with an interest in leadership or organizational culture.

By: Laura Freebairn-Smith
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 231mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 408g
ISBN: 9781394178490
ISBN 10: 1394178492
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 30 August 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword ix Preface xiii Section I Abundance Leadership 1 My Journey to Abundance Leadership 3 2 How Abundance Leaders Think 19 Looking for Explanations 19 Optimism 25 Three Other Fields That Inform Abundance Leadership 30 3 Four Meta-Competencies 43 Visioning for the Greater Good 48 Visibility 56 Self-Awareness 58 Managing Well 60 Section II Organizational Health and Abundance Leadership 4 Improving Your Organization’s Health 65 5 Macrolevers 69 Charrettes 69 Four-Day Workweek 73 Workspace Design 75 Managing by Circadian Rhythm 77 6 Microlevers: Small Tools for Big Change 87 The Gong 88 The Annual Donation: Collective Competition for the Greater Good 89 Public Agenda: Speak Up and Get Heard 90 Community Wall: Life Outside of Work 90 Snow Globes and Collective Memory 91 Facilitation Rotation 92 Dream List: Imagining Our Ideal World 92 Section III the How-to Manual 7 Visioning 99 Visioning 100 Creativity 107 8 Visibility 113 9 Self-Awareness 117 Reflection and Affect 121 Interpersonal Adeptness 135 Morality 140 Ego Control 141 10 Managing Well 145 Team Building 146 Communication 153 Protection 157 Decision-Making 163 Epilogue 169 Appendix A: Additional Resources 171 Appendix B: Organizational Development Bibliography 173 References 181 Acknowledgments 187 About the Author 189 Index 191

LAURA FREEBAIRN-SMITH is a Partner and Co-founder of Organizational Performance Group (OPG), a management consulting firm. She holds an MBA from Yale and a PhD in Organizational Systems from Saybrook University. She has taught as faculty and guest lecturer at Yale, Georgetown, Central CT State University, and the University of New Haven.