📚 Week #24 of 52 of reading for 2024

This week’s books (3 more finished) … a week that pointed me (and others who read these books) towards what matters most and living a holistic/whole person life. 

“Giving Voice to Values: How to Speak Your Mind When You Know What’s Right” by Mary Gentile. 

I appreciate how this book encourages clarity of values, practicing voice & coaching. 

❓ What if you were going to act on your values—what would you say and do? (Love the idea of helping people prepare for what might happen.)

❤️ “My values”—and something that we experience deeply and internally … an important reminder that values are deeply personal. 

‼️ Conditions matter: conditions under which we operate influence us powerfully in (1) what we believe is possible (2) what we actually come to believe about the rightness or wrongness of a particular choice. 

🤔 Some organizational contexts or conditions (and some types of leaders) will have a strong impact on our own and others’ likelihood of expressing values. (Are you a leader that encourages others in expressing their values?)

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“Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life” by Stewart Friedman. 

📖 Leadership is a deliberate choice that requires deliberate practice. (And deliberate practice requires feedback.)

❤️ Being “whole “as a leader enables effectiveness in all aspects of leadership life. 

❗️ Always consider yourself a developing leader to be open to feedback and coaching. 

📚 Leaders need to see themselves as continuous students and remain curious and open throughout their entire time leading people.

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“Nothing to Prove” by Jennie Allen 

😒 Leading always coexists tightly work criticism. 

😀 Leadership is the willingness to take initiative for the good of others 

❤️ We have to prioritize time and issue grace over and over because even the best human will disappoint us. 

❓ Great conversations come from great questions & honest answers. (Love this idea - and it ties to so much in Jeff Wetzler’s book “Ask.”; what if we all asked more great questions and provided honest, straightforward answers?)

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