The Performance Curve
Maximize Your Potential at Work While Strengthening Your Well-Being
1st Edition
Published on 30. September 2021
304 pages
978-1-4729-8552-1 (ISBN)
Description
Shortlisted for the Business Book Awards 2022
Many of us are striving to reach our full potential at work and beyond - to achieve our goals, rise to challenges and connect well with others. But how can we actively develop our performance, while also taking care of our well-being and life satisfaction? The Performance Curve is a ground-breaking guide to success and happiness in both work and life. Rather than telling you what to do, this book allows you to come up with a roadmap for evolving your inner operating system (your mindsets, emotions and habits) for your unique circumstances.
Crucially, this book explores both how you can improve individual performance and how to build relationships and cultures that bring out the best others. By interweaving individual and collective development, this approach is transformational for building leadership and organizational performance.
The Performance Curve is a powerful combination of neuroscience, psychological research and practical guidance. These concepts are then brought to life through the stories of remarkable individuals from different sectors, including business, the arts, academia and not-for-profits. Laura Watkins and Vanessa Dietzel draw upon their vast experience and research as consultants and leadership coaches to deliver a ground-breaking guide to enhancing your performance in your life and career.
Many of us are striving to reach our full potential at work and beyond - to achieve our goals, rise to challenges and connect well with others. But how can we actively develop our performance, while also taking care of our well-being and life satisfaction? The Performance Curve is a ground-breaking guide to success and happiness in both work and life. Rather than telling you what to do, this book allows you to come up with a roadmap for evolving your inner operating system (your mindsets, emotions and habits) for your unique circumstances.
Crucially, this book explores both how you can improve individual performance and how to build relationships and cultures that bring out the best others. By interweaving individual and collective development, this approach is transformational for building leadership and organizational performance.
The Performance Curve is a powerful combination of neuroscience, psychological research and practical guidance. These concepts are then brought to life through the stories of remarkable individuals from different sectors, including business, the arts, academia and not-for-profits. Laura Watkins and Vanessa Dietzel draw upon their vast experience and research as consultants and leadership coaches to deliver a ground-breaking guide to enhancing your performance in your life and career.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4729-8552-1 (9781472985521)
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The Performance Curve
Maximize Your Potential at Work while Strengthening Your Well-being
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09/2021
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Laura Watkins is a neuroscientist and leadership and organization specialist. She has a PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience from Cambridge University and an MA in Physiology and Psychology from Oxford University. She began her career at McKinsey & Co, where she co-founded the leadership practice in Europe. She has founded The Cognitas Group, a leadership and organizational consultancy, and Jumpstart Development, which provides virtual leadership development.
Vanessa Dietzel brings unique insight from her blend of corporate experience, coaching, and teaching breathwork and yoga. She started her career with Boston Consulting Group and, for the past twenty years, has been working with leaders all over the world on their individual and organizational performance and well-being. She has a BSc in International Relations from LSE and has trained in a range of personal and group development techniques.
Vanessa Dietzel brings unique insight from her blend of corporate experience, coaching, and teaching breathwork and yoga. She started her career with Boston Consulting Group and, for the past twenty years, has been working with leaders all over the world on their individual and organizational performance and well-being. She has a BSc in International Relations from LSE and has trained in a range of personal and group development techniques.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction: Redefining performance: the virtuous circle of effectiveness and well-being
- What you will get from this book
- About the authors
- Chapter 1: Which curve are you on?
- The boom-and-bust curve
- The performance curve
- The three performance curve catalysts: wisdom, fuel and connection
- Part 1: The Wisdom Catalyst
- Chapter 2: Working with your inner operating system: mindsets, emotions and habits
- The wisdom catalyst of the performance curve
- What to find in the chapters of Part 1: wisdom catalyst
- Our brain and the inner operating system
- Working with the building blocks of our inner operating system
- The iceberg: from mindsets and emotions to behaviours and results
- Chapter 3: Taking charge of the hidden drivers of your brain
- Protect-explore modes: who is that behind the steering wheel?
- Why are brain modes so important for the performance curve?
- The 'hidden drivers' of protect and explore modes
- Have a say in who gets to be in the driving seat
- Chapter 4: The secret of vertical development
- Why does vertical development matter?
- The path of vertical development
- How developing vertically helps us get in the driving seat of our brains
- How can we deliberately go vertical?
- Chapter 5: Mastering the three performance curve mindsets
- The accountable mindset
- The growth mindset
- The big picture mindset
- How to nurture the three mindsets in ourselves and others
- Part 2: The Fuel Catalyst
- Chapter 6: Sustaining the continuous development of your operating system
- The fuel catalyst of the performance curve
- What to find in the chapters of Part 2: fuel catalyst
- How habits drive us and can help on the performance curve
- How to build sticky habits
- Chapter 7: Performance curve habits: small things, big difference
- The five channels for performance curve habits
- How to select your repertoire of performance curve habits
- How to make performance curve habits part of your life
- Helping others build self-awareness and self-management
- Chapter 8: Get purpose-fu(e)l
- Why is purpose important for the performance curve?
- What makes for a high-fuel purpose?
- How to identify a high-fuel purpose
- Translate your purpose into reality
- Build 'habits of purpose'
- Chapter 9: Harnessing the power of paradox
- Defining paradoxical thinking
- Why does paradoxical thinking provide fuel?
- A beautiful paradox
- Practising paradoxical thinking: five steps
- Part 3: The Connection Catalyst
- Chapter 10: Going far and fast, together
- The connection catalyst of the performance curve
- What to find in the chapters of Part 3: connection catalyst
- How emotional bond helps us move on the performance curve
- The source of emotional bond: vulnerability and empathy
- The basis for vulnerability and empathy: socio-emotional cognition
- How to build more emotional bond
- Chapter 11: Developmental relationships in action
- The essence of developmental relationships: emotional bond and stretch
- What happens when we lack emotional bond or stretch?
- How to build developmental relationships: developmental conversations
- Chapter 12: Building performance curve cultures
- The three mindsets of performance curve cultures
- Building habits of a performance curve culture
- Role modelling a performance curve culture
- Using training to cultivate a performance curve culture
- Chapter 13: Close: using the three catalysts in your daily life
- The catalyst toolkit for challenging situations
- The performance curve at the systemic level
- Closing words
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Index
