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Through our Newsletter, we share the latest and greatest books, articles, and other stories in leadership development from our experts. Our goal is to provide you, the reader, with the resources that can help you unleash your full potential. Happy reading!

From the Founders:

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What I'm Reading

Lyn Turknett - Co-founder and Co-chair, TLG

How Companies Can Tackle The Gender Burnout Gap

By Forbes


"The latest Gallup State of the Global Workplace: 2022 Report finds employee stress at an all-time high. The report states that almost half of the world's workers felt the burden of stress; however, working women in the United States and Canada were among the most stressed employees globally. As working women continue to undertake the majority of domestic and childcare responsibilities, they experience burnout and exhaustion at a higher rate than men. This gender burnout gap exists because most workplaces do not create cultures that support women in managing work-life integration.


According to the Women at Work 2022: A Global Outlook report published by the consulting company Deloitte just a third of all employers offer flexible working policies."

Work-life integration: What it is and 5 ways to develop it

By BetterUp


"Work and life have integrated more than ever before. With employees working from kitchen tables and living room couches, it’s impossible to spot the difference between home and work. 


The pandemic spurred a work-life integration that spiraled into a brimming burnout crisis. 95% of human resources executives admit that employee burnout is a leading cause of workforce turnover. Thus, enabling a healthy work-life balance is a major challenge for organizations today.


The rise in remote work has also blurred the lines between personal and work time, making it more difficult to achieve work-life balance. And due to the rise in business demands, work schedules have become more hectic."

What Successful Work and Life Integration Looks Like

By Harvard Business Review


"Too many people believe that to achieve great things we must make brutal sacrifices, that to succeed in work we must focus single-mindedly, at the expense of everything else in life. Even those who reject the idea of a zero-sum game fall prey to a kind of binary thinking revealed by the term we use to describe the ideal lifestyle: “work/life balance.” The idea that “work” competes with “life” ignores that “life” is actually the intersection and interaction of four major domains: work, home, community, and the private self.


From years of studying people in many different settings, I have found that the most successful people are those who can harness the passions and powers of the various parts of their lives, bringing them together to achieve what I call “four-way wins” — actions that result in life being better in all four domains. My research has shown that there are ways for everyone — from the managers of sales teams, to executives in government agencies, to computer engineers, to florists, to coaches — to achieve professional success without always having to sacrifice the things that matter in their personal lives."

From our Team:

Marty Gupta, VP of Startegic Services

Love and Work: How to Find What You Love, Love What You Do, and Do It for the Rest of Your Life

by Marcus Buckingham


Marcus Buckingham has written several bestselling business books, he co-created the StrengthFinders tool at Gallup, and currently leads the People + Performance practice at the ADP Research Institute. His most recent book Love and Work (April, 2022) addresses the old adage, ‘love what you do’, and challenges conventional wisdom. 

For example, we are often told to be ‘purpose-driven’ and to find our ‘true purpose’. ‘If we excel at our job, we will never have to work again’. The author argues there is no research that supports this way of thinking. Instead, the key to a satisfying career is to focus on the small parts of the job that give you energy and do more of them. He calls these ‘red threads’. These are the tasks, activities, and moments that create ‘flow’ - when you lose track of time, had to be pulled away from what you were doing, and you wanted the activity to never end. The author found that people who spend 20% of their time on red threads love their work. 

Unfortunately, school, work and society don’t encourage us to think this way and the book addresses these forces (‘seven devils’). The author challenges several myths based on research conducted at ADP: 


MYTH: The organization’s most valuable asset is its people. 

TRUTH: The organization’s most valuable asset is its trust. 

 

MYTH: Your organization’s culture comes from the top. 

TRUTH: Your organization’s culture comes from the teams. 

 

MYTH: The team leader should set goals at the beginning of the year. 

TRUTH: The team leader should check in with each team member for fifteen minutes every week. 


This book is packed with practical, research-based findings

From our CEO:

Tino Mantella - President & CEO, TLG

Blind Spot: Hidden Biases of Good People

by Mahzarin R. Banji and Anthony G. Greenwald


Last year TLG coaches coached nearly 300 leaders. One of the things that inevitably comes up are blind spots.


I was very interested in listening to this book because it ties into the work that we do. One of the key things we intellectually all know is that everyone has them.


The authors call it “mind bugs”. They give a multitude of examples that we at TLG often refer to as unconscious biases. If you pick up the book Banji and Greenwald will point you to validated assessments that reinforce their thesis.


Whether, age, race, male, female sexual orientation, ethnicity, even the best of us are biased. Best thing to do is be mindful and self aware as best as possible.  The Washington Post sums it up well “ While we may not have much power to eradicate our own prejudices, we can counteract them. The first step is to turn a hidden bias into a visible one... What if we're not the magnanimous people we think we are?