Mindset - Dweck_ Carol.rtf

Even in individual sports, like tennis or golf, great athletes have a team—coaches, trainers, caddies, managers, mentors. This r ...

Candace has a very different father from Iciss, a dad who is teaching her a different lesson: “If you work hard at something, yo ...

corporations had become obsessed with talent. Indeed, the gurus at McKinsey & Company, the premier management consulting fir ...

brutal answers—that is, to look failures in the face, even their own, while maintaining faith that they would succeed in the end ...

task, they maintained a healthy sense of confidence. They operated like Alan Wurtzel. LEADERSHIP AND THE FIXED MINDSET In contra ...

continued, CEOs became superheroes. But the people who preen their egos and look for the next self-image boost are not the same ...

would not stay put. He needed to prove his greatness—to himself, to Henry Ford, to the world—on a larger and larger scale. He sp ...

He’s raising money (and giving a lot of his own) for innovative diabetes research. He’s working for the development of environme ...

opted out of the kind of learning that would have helped him succeed. The Smartest Guys in the Room Yes, it seems as though hist ...

anything wrong. The world simply didn’t get it. Two Geniuses Collide Resident geniuses almost brought down AOL and Time Warner, ...

the things that work against their growth.... People like to use their strengths... to achieve quick, dramatic results, even if. ...

Instruments, another leader in the exciting early days of the computer. If they didn’t like a presentation, Mark Shepherd and Fr ...

This vignette says a lot. Jack was obviously a busy guy. An important guy. But he didn’t run things like Iacocca—from the luxuri ...

He learned how to select people: for their mindset, not their pedigrees. Originally, academic pedigrees impressed him. He hired ...

asked him again. “You owe it to America. We’re going to have President Clinton call and tell you to take the job. Please, please ...

Anne: Learning, Toughness, and Compassion Take IBM. Plunge it into debt to the tune of seventeen billion. Destroy its credit rat ...

When you look at the books written by and about CEOs, you would think so. Jim Collins’s good-to-great leaders (and his compariso ...

Groupthink can occur when people put unlimited faith in a talented leader, a genius. This is what led to the disastrous Bay of P ...

Wood showed in his study, a growth mindset—by relieving people of the illusions or the burdens of fixed ability—leads to a full ...

RELATIONSHIPS: MINDSETS IN LOVE (OR NOT) What was that about the course of true love never running smooth? Well, the course to t ...