Bankable Leadership : Happy People, Bottom-Line Results, and the Power to Deliver Both

by Tasha Eurich

People or Results? You Don't Have to Choose! ''If I relentlessly drive my team to achieve our goals, they won't like me.'' ''If I try to make everybody on the team happy, we won't hit our numbers.'' As a leader, you've likely felt this fundamental tension--the tension between driving results and developing positive relationships with your people. Despite all the research telling us that effective leaders do both, most of us struggle to balance the happiness of our teams and the health of the bottom line. We are more comfortable focusing on one or the other, and we feel overwhelmed and drained by the challenges we face when we try to accomplish both. In Bankable Leadership , psychologist, executive coach, and proud leadership geek Dr. Tasha Eurich (or Dr. T) solves this dilemma and reveals how to make leadership exhilarating, fun, and fulfilling. Built on decades of research and the transformation of real leaders, her fresh, practical model can help anyone become bankable --producing results while fostering a healthy work environment that ensures sustainable success. Discover how to
- Be human and drive performance,
- Be helpful and drive responsibility,
- Be thankful and drive improvement, and
- Be happy and drive productivity. Dr. T's approach will help you develop these universally effective behaviors through an online assessment and boots-on-the-ground tools, like earning trust through transparency, treating adults like adults, and taking a no-fear approach to feedback. Whether you re struggling to build a more productive team, increase confidence in your leadership skills, or consistently deliver results, Bankable Leadership is the resource you've been waiting for!

Genres: Leadership, Nonfiction, Business, Professional Development, Self Help

289 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 2013

About the author

Tasha Eurich is an organizational psychologist, researcher, and New York Times best-selling author.

INSIGHT is now available for pre-order.

Dr. Eurich’s first book, Bankable Leadership, debuted on the New York Times bestseller list in 2013, and has since become a popular resource for managers and executives who want to make their employees happy and produce bottom-line results for their business. Her second book, Insight, delves into the connection between our self-awareness – what she calls the meta-skill of the twenty-first century – and our performance and success, both in life and the workplace. Insight will be on sale 5/2/17

She’s built a reputation as a fresh, modern voice in the leadership world by pairing her scientific grounding in human behavior with a pragmatic approach to business challenges. With a PhD in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Colorado State University, Dr. Eurich has spent the last 15 years helping thousands of professionals—from Fortune 500 executives to early stage entrepreneurs—improve their self-awareness and success.

In her spare time, she enjoys travelling, cycling, historical biographies, and is an unapologetic theater nerd. She lives in her hometown of Denver, Colorado with her husband and their rambunctious dogs.

Reviews

[Matt Zeigler · Rating 5 out of 5]

Who should read this book: anyone in a leadership or management position, or who has aspirations to be in one, would benefit from getting familiar with all of Dr. Tasha Eurich’s work. This is as much a behavioral psychology book as it is a cultural-anthropology-at-work book. If you want to understand what is going on around you and why at yo it job, this book will help. MBAs with psych interests, this is especially for you. Eurich breaks down the job by category (making the book a handy reference), includes checklists, prompts, and other applicable tools, and uses studies and data to support each (including measurement criteria and tons of references to explore). In the sense of her professional coaching business, this reads like her handbook.

[April Larcher · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book

This was a great book. I like the writing style and practical examples. I am constantly reading leadership books and this book is mostly relevant to my current career (I work in the public sector and there are many private sector examples).

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[Daniel · Rating 5 out of 5]

As I was anticipating a promotion in the Fall of 2015, I came across this gem and purchased it as an ebook. I have read a dozen or so pieces on leadership and this one ranks on the same level as "The Servant as Leader" by Robert Greenleaf. Dr. Eurich's approach is focused on relationships. She emphasizes a personalized approach which is results driven. One excerpt:
"So how do the best coaches -and leaders -help their teams win? The build two types of trust: trust based on competence and trust based on motive. . . . When you earn motive-based trust, people believe you have positive intentions. With this type of trust, your team will support your vision because they believe you have their best interests at heart." I'm not going to quote the whole book for you; but be advised that it is accessible and it is based upon basic human psychology. One key component for Dr. Eurich is integrity which she defines as "having firm and well-articulated principles and acting in a manner that is consistent with them." So if you have integrity, you earn the trust of your team and they will therefore follow the leader. And, again it's not just about having bright ideas but about having solid relationships.
The promotion did come available and I'm now managing a team of 7 other attorneys with four legal secretaries. I often reflect on and return to many of the lessons learned in Bankable Leadership.