FINALIST: American Book Fest Best Book Award 2020 - Business: Careers
Success. Innovation. Creativity. Growth. We all want these things at work - but the one thing they all have in common is that they involve failure.
A fear of failure, or the inability to bounce back and learn from failures, is one of the biggest things that can hold us back in our professional development - so how do we learn how to fail well and develop our resilience? Wherever we work, and whatever role we deliver, we all have the power to change our thinking and our response to failure - Bounce Back is here to help.
Written by Business Psychologist Dr Susan Kahn, this book will show you how to embrace failure. Failing fast, failing well, and learning how to be agile and resilient at work is a vital part of being a successful and innovative leader, approaching opportunities with excitement and creativity, and driving forward your personal and professional growth.
Packed with practical exercises, inspirational case studies and a useful resilience self-assessment guide, Bounce Back will show you how to invest in your resilience in a deliberate way, and empower you to face risk head-on. From learning how to respond well to critical feedback, to understanding cultural attitudes to failure around the world, this book will help you be a stronger, more resilient you.
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Index
ABC of resilience 178–79
abusive relationships 67
adrenaline 39, 44, 33
adversity, making sense of 90
affirmations, RAS (reticular activating system) affirmations (exercise) 184–85
age and resilience 180
agile working 87–89
ambiverts 113
amygdala 39
Ancient Greece 12, 85, 103, 146
anger
Explode or sublimate – self-assessment (exercise) 71–72
sublimation 66
underlying causes 43–44
anxiety
Calming our nerves (exercise) 50–51
defence mechanisms 58–69
survival value 41–42
anxiety disorders 37
Aristotle 177
art, sublimation and 66–67
authenticity 175
autonomy of resilience 172
baby boomers, career expectations 154
Beale, Inga 21–22
Beethoven, Ludwig van 66
Bion, Wilfred R 57, 112
blind spots 59–60
Johari window 60–61
Uncovering your blind spots (exercise) 74
Blockbuster 15
Bobbi Brown 20
body 40–45
activating the calming and relaxing mechanism 42
Building a body of resilience (exercise) 47–48
comfort zone 41–42
power of sleep 40–41
promoting resilience 46
somatic intelligence 44–45
taking care of 40–45
bounce back
or bounce forwards 181–82
stronger from change 90–91
brain 31–39
default network 34
dual-system brain 45
effects of pressure and stress 33–34
influence of early years relationships 31–32
mental health at work 36–38
neuroplasticity 32–33, 35
potential to change, adapt and respond 32–33
promoting resilience 46
rational vs emotional decision-making 45
rebuilding your emotional brain 33–34
terminology related to 38–39
thinking, fast and slow 45
Branson, Richard 13
breathing and the nervous system 42
bricolage concept 179
Brown, Bobbi 20
Brown, Brené 91, 174
Building a body of resilience (exercise) 47–48
bullying
dealing with bullying at work 127–29
resilience and 129
burnout 106, 146
Cain, Susan 114
Calhoun, L G J 133
Calming our nerves (exercise) 50–51
catharsis, the writing cure 90
Cathartic cure (exercise) 93
challenges, influence of mindset 36
change
How you have been and how you will be (exercise) 189
understanding the reason for 79
Change is coming! (exercise) 94–95
change, loss and disruption at work 76–91
‘always on’ transformation 76–77
bouncing back stronger from change 90–91
con...
Table of contents
- About the author
- Foreword by Nicola Mendelsohn CBE
- Acknowledgements
- List of exercises
- Introduction
- 01 Fail fast
- 02 Brain and body
- 03 Below the surface
- 04 Change, disruption and loss
- 05 Leadership
- 06 Conflict
- 07 Purpose
- 08 Closing thoughts
- Bibliography
- Index
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