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The Psychology of Leadership
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The Psychology of Leadership

Timeless principles to improve your management of individuals, teams… and yourself!

Harriman House, 2025 más...

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T. Rowe Price executive Sébastien Page combines his business acumen with sports psychology, positive psychology, and personality psychology to develop insights into leadership and spur innovative thinking. He finds that leadership goes beyond winning – in sports and in business – and demands the mental skills to enable and then promote high-end performance. These skills include staying aware of unintended consequences, organizing your work around your goals, and not obsessing over winning. With grounding in academic research, Page’s book offers practical suggestions on orienting your thinking as a leader and as a human being.

Summary

Don’t ignore the unintended consequences of your goals.

Sébastien Page is a finance leader who has spent his career working with other finance executives. When he decided to write a book on leadership, he looked beyond his expertise and investigated new developments in positive psychology, personality psychology, and sports psychology.

Positive psychology, an often-underrated field, studies the psychological building blocks of human well-being. Personality psychology examines people’s traits and actions in order to predict their behavior. Sports psychology studies the psychological traits of sports team members and athletes who excel. One of its insights is that mental skills are critical to high performance. Sports psychology doesn’t define success as centering on winning. Instead, it highlights learning from your errors and developing the mental resilience to keep going even when you lose.

The PERMA leadership model, which comes from positive psychology, focuses on “positive emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning, and accomplishment.” PERMA offers straightforward principles and advice for setting realistic, measurable objectives and for becoming aware...

About the Author

Sébastien Page is Head of Global Multi-Asset and Chief Investment Officer at T. Rowe Price. He also wrote Beyond Diversification: What Every Investor Needs to Know About Asset Allocation.


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