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The Conscious Effect: 50 Lessons for Better Organizational Wellbeing
The Conscious Effect focuses on reconnecting leaders with both their people and themselves. It awakens the awesome potential in organizations through an emotionally intelligent, people-first approach, which places employee and leadership wellbeing at its heart, and helps leaders to become more consciously aware of what’s going on within and around them. If leaders take better care of themselves and their people, they will run more socially responsible businesses that can leverage the full potential of their employees. This book weaves together practical knowledge of behavioral science so that leaders understand what to do and why it works.
240 pages, Paperback
Published June 13, 2019
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January 10, 2020
Natasha Wallace’s The Conscious Effect: 50 Lessons for Better Organizational Wellbeing is a relatively short but expansive book exploring the connections between conscious leadership and personal wellbeing. Wallace structures the book in five distinct parts and divides it further into 50 chapters (or “lessons”) over the course of the volume. She likewise includes two case studies and a recap at the end of each section that, as readers of this review will likely infer, summarize the contents of each part and the lessons contained therein. Wallace gives her book a personal voice often lacking from similar works and her willingness to lay bare her own vulnerabilities in the context of her larger arguments distinguishes The Conscious Effect from many other works of this stripe. Her prose has a cool and collected disposition from the outset and its accessibility is one of the key components to the book’s success.
Her approach to the idea of “wellbeing” is, as she states early on, holistic. It isn’t about eating right or getting enough sleep, though these factors certainly play an important role in our overall wellbeing, but rather focuses instead on emotional wellbeing and how a lack of that quality has far reaching effects on co-workers and an organization. She includes examples throughout the text of companies who are getting this right and each of the fifty lessons are packed with graphics and lists explicating the approach Wallace advocates. The author titles the sections within each section in succinct ways clearly signaling what she wants to share with her readers.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: https://conscious-works.com/
The lessons will seem obvious to many; the need for leaders to create a productive comfort zone for others, the wisdom of evaluating failure as an opportunity rather than a defeat, and so forth. Her thoughts on what constitutes effective leadership for the wellbeing of all those involved is one of the many highlights distinguishing this work from others in its area. Wallace brings readers through The Conscious Effect in a logic, even linear, manner. It unfolds in a methodical way but, despite the systematic nature of its construction, Wallace’s book never reads stilted or lacking spark. The aforementioned “obviousness” of its lessons is true enough, many seem like common sense, but it often takes an outsider’s perspective, or an experienced point of view, to cut through the detritus of everyday life and pinpoint things we are, perhaps, too distracted by life to note or address.
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The graphics and lists mentioned earlier add much to the book, but the focal point throughout remains her prose. Wallace’s book makes convincing arguments without ever adopting a strident tone and her credibility throughout the course of work is beyond question. Her contribution to the growing body of literature about the importance of maintaining a high degree of self care in our professional lives has timeless relevance and The Conscious Effect: 50 Lessons for Better Organizational Wellbeing is an invaluable reference work for people in leadership positions and otherwise you can revisit over time and delve into at any point finding something worthwhile.
Her approach to the idea of “wellbeing” is, as she states early on, holistic. It isn’t about eating right or getting enough sleep, though these factors certainly play an important role in our overall wellbeing, but rather focuses instead on emotional wellbeing and how a lack of that quality has far reaching effects on co-workers and an organization. She includes examples throughout the text of companies who are getting this right and each of the fifty lessons are packed with graphics and lists explicating the approach Wallace advocates. The author titles the sections within each section in succinct ways clearly signaling what she wants to share with her readers.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: https://conscious-works.com/
The lessons will seem obvious to many; the need for leaders to create a productive comfort zone for others, the wisdom of evaluating failure as an opportunity rather than a defeat, and so forth. Her thoughts on what constitutes effective leadership for the wellbeing of all those involved is one of the many highlights distinguishing this work from others in its area. Wallace brings readers through The Conscious Effect in a logic, even linear, manner. It unfolds in a methodical way but, despite the systematic nature of its construction, Wallace’s book never reads stilted or lacking spark. The aforementioned “obviousness” of its lessons is true enough, many seem like common sense, but it often takes an outsider’s perspective, or an experienced point of view, to cut through the detritus of everyday life and pinpoint things we are, perhaps, too distracted by life to note or address.
AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/Conscious-Effe...
The graphics and lists mentioned earlier add much to the book, but the focal point throughout remains her prose. Wallace’s book makes convincing arguments without ever adopting a strident tone and her credibility throughout the course of work is beyond question. Her contribution to the growing body of literature about the importance of maintaining a high degree of self care in our professional lives has timeless relevance and The Conscious Effect: 50 Lessons for Better Organizational Wellbeing is an invaluable reference work for people in leadership positions and otherwise you can revisit over time and delve into at any point finding something worthwhile.
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