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Curiosity Shelf – Leadership

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04.08.2022-11.14.27
Cover Images for Compassionate Leadership, A Leadership Guide for Women in Higher Education, and Trust Yourself.

A few new leadership titles have captured my curiosity and are timely to the malaise of working in a pandemic that many of us are experiencing. There is a common thread to these books and that is a mindful awareness of your humanity. Each title offers insights and strategies for leaders to reconnect their emotions, compassion, and heart with the individuals they lead. The books offer a helpful reframing to the management lenses that administrators and supervisors are often taught and evaluated against.

Hougaard and Carter offer three nuggets of leadership wisdom in their introduction to Compassionate Leadership. “First, nobody wants to be managed. Second, who you are is more important than how smart you are. And last, leadership is all about developing and enabling meaningful and trusting human relationships.”

Haas, writing to women in higher education leadership roles, encourages and advises women to lean into that final truth and resist the urge to tamp down our often strong capacity for relationship building. Haas keenly acknowledges that this strength can be manipulated by others to limit our spheres of influence by boxing us into daughter, mother, or wifely roles. These paradigms are most often used by others when emotions are high or conflict is present.

Wilding’s book, Trust Yourself, presents healthier options for interpreting and working with your emotions. As humans we experience emotions all of the time and we shouldn’t ignore them or stuff them away while at work. Wilding equips us with tools for understanding how our emotions offer signals to us about our values, relationships, and goals that can help us be better leaders and humans at work.

Hass, M. (2021). A Leadership Guide for Women in Higher Education. United States: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Hougaard, R., Carter, J. (2022). Compassionate Leadership: How to Do Hard Things in a Human Way. United States: Harvard Business Review Press.

Wilding, M., Wilding Lmsw, M. (2021). Trust Yourself: Stop Overthinking and Channel Your Emotions for Success at Work. United States: Chronicle Books LLC.


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