Deliberate calm: How leaders can learn how to change when change is hard

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  Edited by Stephanie d’Arc Taylor
  Editor, New York

Stress test: Leadership in a time of crisis is hard enough. But a situation of extreme volatility and uncertainty, when you don’t know how far things will fall, requires a special, more thoughtful kind of leadership—a kind that takes training and constant practice. “Deliberate calm is a personal toolkit to help leaders change and adapt when it’s the most important and hardest,” says McKinsey senior partner Aaron De Smet, who—along with senior knowledge expert Jacqueline Brassey and Imagine CEO Michiel Kruyt—is the author of the forthcoming book Deliberate Calm: How to Learn and Lead in a Volatile World. Steering a ship through a storm in today’s murky waters, they argue, requires leaders to build competencies previously dismissed as ‘soft’—skills like self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and mindfulness. Check out a new Author Talks interview to learn more, and preorder your copy of the book for concrete protocols on building resilience in times of uncertainty. 

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