The Art of Authenticity, Karissa Thacker
The Art of Authenticity, Karissa Thacker
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The Art of Authenticity
Tools to Become an Authentic Leader and Your Best Self

Author: Karissa Thacker

Narrator: Karen Saltus

Unabridged: 7 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 04/01/2017


Synopsis

Leverage your authentic self into a valuable leadership strategy

The Art of Authenticity is a guide to becoming a better leader by achieving your best self. All people bring different sides of themselves to various situations. This audiobook will show you how to broaden and deepen your effectiveness by presenting the most appropriate side of yourself. Dr. Karissa Thacker is the management psychologist called on by over two hundred Fortune 500 companies to work with high potential leaders. This audiobook provides you with her expert guidance, based on validated psychological research and artful application of psychological principles to actual business situations, to help you become an authentic leader. You'll learn how to lead through reflection, action, and conscious choice, and how to maintain your guiding principles while effectively leading your team. By replacing habitual reactions with authentic ones, you'll find that you're modeling good behavior and effective decision-making-and that authenticity is contagious. This guide equips you with the tools and skills you need to be the catalyst of positive change your organization needs.

How do you remain authentic while being an effective leader? This audiobook argues that the question isn't a duality. Authenticity is the best way to lead, and the only way to maintain sustainable success as an organization. This insightful guide shows you how to find your authentic self, and leverage that into an effective, executable leadership strategy.
Become authentic in a way that befits your values
Show loyalty, honesty, ethics, and consideration
Maintain authenticity in leadership roles
Make conscious choices instead of blind reactions
Some are born to lead, other must be taught, but all leaders must work to retain their own values and basic sense of self. A simple pause can mean the difference between a knee-jerk reaction and an authentic decision, and the effects ripple throughout your organization. The Art of Authenticity is your guidebook to finding the true authentic leader within, and leading from the inside out for the long haul.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Shannon on January 13, 2020

The information in this book was useful and I always enjoy psychology-based approaches, but the writing was dense and felt more like reading a scholarly article than a book. I had to take it in small chunks because I kept zoning out and missing information.......more

Goodreads review by Marianne on February 17, 2018

I did enjoy this book with the ideas, self reflection questions, and actionable strategies to try. It had a very abrupt ending though and felt like a summary/conclusion was needed. At times reading it I felt challenged with the organization of the book yet the concepts and theories were thought prov......more

Goodreads review by Kennedy on February 03, 2025

Great book Wonderful book, easy to digest, with loads of practical examples. I would recommend it for any one on a journey of becoming authentic leader.......more

Goodreads review by Kurtis Gundersen on June 17, 2021

Great beginning Great insights at the start but not attention holding through the middle. Great book worth the read. Enjoy yourself all!......more

Goodreads review by Janice on May 10, 2019

The book is a little slow at the beginning but it picks up towards the end and has some good takeaways like building a team of rivals to guard against group think and the myth of total transparency.......more