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The Power Of The Learning Mindset attracts intellectual reviews, overwhelming readers’ interests
Ayo Ola
The Book: The Power Of The Learning Mindset which was co-authored by an award winning international scholar, speaker and author, Dr Ambassador Lilian Ajayi-Ore and Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, has elicited great intellectual reviews.
Available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble for purchase, the book has been enjoying overwhelming patronage.
IN an age where technological and economic changes define trends, contemporary business leaders face unprecedented challenges such as: How do they stay relevant when technology transforms entire industries overnight? How do they build teams that thrive amid constant change? And how do they foster innovation while maintaining operational excellence?
Or perhaps, in today’s world, which is overwhelmed ‘by the distractions of misinformation, disinformation, clickbait headlines, declining institutional trust’, how does traditional leadership approach questions of trust?
Not to mention the allure of celebrity gossip, the endless scroll of social media opinions from friends and strangers alike, political noise digital scams, and the lingering effects of post pandemic fatigue,’ how can business leaders meet the challenge of new world order?
In over 250 pages of content, illustrations, references and index, Dr. Lilian Ajayi Ore and Dr. Marshall Goldsmith try to provide answers to these questions of the new age in their revolutionary approach to leadership development.
As Ore puts it, “I was deeply inspired to write this book, because if you think about the time during the pandemic, like the post-pandemic effect, things like the Great Resignation was happening. People were leaving their jobs because they didn’t like their bosses. And for me, I can only imagine being a boss and having that phenomenon take place in my workplace. And it wasn’t just one individual. It was multiple situations where people were just leaving because they didn’t like who they worked for. So this book is a guide for leaders to really figure out a way to retain trust, rebuild trust.”
Titled, The Power of the Learning Mindset, the book offers fresh, insightful, and actionable guide to open up new paths to career advancement by cultivating a new approach to adaptability, curiosity, and resilience.
The book proves that the best leaders never stop learning, and shows exactly how to put that into practice. It raises the need to develop a passion for learning and adaptability to advance your career in the modern workplace.
Ore, an award-winning international scholar and executive, teams up with Goldsmith, bestselling author and renowned executive coach, to reveal research-based strategies for cultivating adaptability, curiosity, and resilience. Together, they demonstrate how leaders can hone their ability to evolve while powering exponential business growth.
In his foreword to the book, Eric Schurenberg writes: “Dr Lilian brings the lens of an educator to this book, a commitment both to intellectual humility and rigorous pursuit of knowledge. Her coauthor , Marshal Goldsmith, brings the wisdom of decades spent advising the world’s most accomplished leaders, reminding them that the skills that carried them to the top may not be the ones that will sustain them there.”
For ease of navigation and understanding, the book is divided into three areas: learning prowess, leadership prowess, and coaching prowess.
As Ore puts it, “I designed the book into three different layers. The first layer is the learning prowess. The framework of the book is built around this win mindset. We all want to win. Managers want to win. Leaders want to win. People who work for you want to win, too. And the W stands for willingness. So, the first section of the book is the Learning Prowess.”
And that focuses on “how do we get ourselves to learn? How do we look inward to figure out what’s missing and what we need to learn so that we can be better leaders for the people that we support?”
And then the second, the heart of the book, which is focused on the I, which is the intentionality. Titled, the Leadership Prowess, it talks about leadership actions? “What are the things that make me a great leader? What are the things that I need to develop? What habits do I need to get rid of that is preventing me from really engaging with my staff and my team? And what we don’t realise is if we don’t have the right support system for leaders, companies can’t fail.”
And so the last part of the book is focused on the N, “which is the nurturing, reminding people that leaders are people, too, and we need to figure out a way to coach them.”
So the focus of that section is called the Coaching Prowess. “And I built a framework for each of the sections. And I like all the sections of the book, but one of the things that I think is unique about the coaching prowess is to look at the leader in three stages of a pyramid.”
The first part is care for self, the desire for the leader to take care of him or herself first. And then the second stage is to align with purpose, purpose beyond him or her. And then the third stage of that pyramid is to nurture others, reminding leaders that you’re not here for yourself, you’re here for others.
“How much do I really like my job? How much do I really like what I’m doing in life? Is, you know, when you talk about the power of learning mindset, and the leaders of these companies, is it about making it fun? Is it about adding meaning to what they’re doing every day?”
The book is about getting you to think about your leadership legacy and what type of imprint you want to have on people. How do you want them to feel? And do you want to have fun at work? Absolutely have fun at work.
The Power of the Learning Mindset is an essential resource for executives, managers, and emerging leaders who want to thrive in their current roles while positioning themselves for future success.
As Schurenberg, founder of Alliance for Trust in Media and former CEO of Mansueto Ventures, parent of Inc. and Fast Company, puts it: “If I had read The Power of the Learning Mindset during my years leading Inc. and Fast Company, it would have changed how I approached leadership. Absorb the lessons and examples in this book, and you’ll shift how you see the information flowing through your company―and your life.”
For Dr. Nigel Paine, co-presenter of Learning Now TV, and bestselling author of The Great Reset, the book “is both visionary and intensely practical. The two frames it shares are powerful agents of reflection and embedded action. And its careful structure means you will never get lost. The structure is clear and this makes the book super accessible. The learning mindset is not just nice to have but a core power skill for survival in this brittle and incomprehensible age. This is our guidebook for thriving and growing.”
Sally Helgesen, international bestselling author of How Women Rise and Rising Together, and cited in Forbes as the world’s premier women’s leadership expert, “in this fresh and fascinating book, Lilian Ajayi Ore and Marshall Goldsmith show why continuous learning is essential for anyone seeking to positively impact what often seems a post-truth world. Their highly original distinction between mastery―having achieved expertise―and prowess―the ongoing refinement of skills and knowledge―adds a helpful dimension to how we understand both excellence and authenticity. Best of all, they show how leaders and coaches can cultivate prowess, in themselves and those they serve.”