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Bringing a Growth Mindset into Your Organization

The exciting shift to living a growth mindset involves working toward seeing challenges as learning opportunities rather than threats.

Bringing a Growth Mindset to Your Teaching

Carol Dweck, a leading researcher of the Growth Mindset concept, explains the research and the power of Growth Mindset in this Tedx talk.

Developing a Growth Mindset

Scientists are learning that our brains continue to grow, expand, build new pathways, and evolve as we experience new events – both pleasant and unpleasant. How great is that?

What’s a Growth Mindset?

People who have a growth mindset believe that all people can learn, grow and become more intelligent with time and experience.

You Didn’t Get Promoted, Now What?

Try to look at this experience as something that’s pointed you in exactly the direction of where you’d like to go!

Powerful Questions for Powerful Leadership

Today, we’re sharing some of the questions that we’ve found invite higher levels of input and expand critical thinking.

Leading When Bad Things Happen

Leadership, as we define it, is the willingness to influence your world and the willingness to be influenced by your world.

When Bad Things Happen to Good Companies

We have recently been working with the leadership teams of two very different companies where the proverbial sh!t has hit the fan . . . through no fault of their own. A sad fact: Bad things can happen to good companies, which means that bad things can also happen to good people in those companies. Figuring…

You Are Not Alone

We were recently facilitating a company meeting with a team of people, many of whom had worked for the company for their entire career. In the meeting, people were complaining about the challenges they faced and the hardships of the current financial environment in their industry. They were feeling threatened, singled out, and personally…