Notes on Natural Leadership 2024
Notes on Natural Leadership 2024
About the Book
Drawing from his extensive experience as a leadership coach, Tony Piper explores a fundamental distinction that transforms how we lead: the difference between Natural and Normal states of mind. Rather than adding new techniques or strategies to your leadership toolkit, this book reveals how innate wisdom and resilience naturally emerge when we're not caught up in personal thinking. Through insights gained from working with leaders across organizations, Piper shows how understanding this distinction improves decision-making under pressure, creates genuine psychological safety, enhances team performance, and reduces stress while improving results. Whether you're leading a large organization, a small team, or simply want to bring out the best in others, these insights will help you access your natural leadership capacity more consistently and effectively.
Table of Contents
- Frontmatter
- Preface: How This Book Came to Be
- How to Use This Book
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Natural vs Normal
- Natural Leadership at Home and Work
- Evolution and Resilience
- Antifragility - Growing Stronger Through Challenge
- We feel our thinking, not our circumstances
- People are always doing what makes most sense to them in the moment at their current level of understanding
- Separate Realities
- What is, is. What isn’t, isn’t
- Natural Leadership in Action
- The Movement Between States
- Leadership Implications
- Combinations of Natural and Normal and the relationship to power
- Maintaining Natural State Under Pressure
- The Art of Noticing: A Gateway to Natural State
- Listening like a Rock
- The Truth is Before the But
- Acceptance: Oh Well
- Improvisation - But vs And
- Expectation vs Hope
- The Business Case for Natural State
- Implementing Natural State Leadership at Scale
- Common Objections and Scepticism
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1: Meta Perspectives
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