Persuadable: How Great Leaders Change Their Minds to Change the World
Al Pittampalli
Language: English
Pages: 256
ISBN: 0062333895
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
As a leader, changing your mind has always been perceived as a weakness. Not anymore. In a world that’s changing faster than ever, successful leaders realize that a genuine willingness to change their own minds is the ultimate competitive advantage.
Drawing on evidence from social science, history, politics, and more, business consultant Al Pittampalli reveals why confidence, consistency, and conviction, are increasingly becoming liabilities—while humility, inconsistency, and radical open-mindedness are powerful leadership assets.
In Persuadable, you’ll learn how Ray Dalio became the most successful hedge fund manager in the world by strategically curbing confidence. How Alan Mullaly saved Ford Motor Company, not by staying the course, but by continually changing course. How one Nobel Prize-winning scientist discovered the cause of ulcers by bravely doubting his own entrenched beliefs. You’ll learn how Billy Graham’s change of heart helped propel the civil rights movement, and how a young NFL linebacker’s radical new position may prove to alter the world of professional football as we know it.
Pittampalli doesn’t just explain why you should be persuadable. Distilling cutting edge research from cognitive and social psychology, he shows you precisely how. Rife with actionable advice, Persuadable is an invaluable guide for today’s data-driven, results-oriented leader.
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“The Formula for Economic Success.” His most popular work, however, was a YouTube video entitled “How the Economic Machine Works,” which distilled his grand understanding into a 30-minute animated video—for all the world to see.5 When Charlie Rose interviewed Dalio on CBS This Morning, the deeply confused host channeled the puzzlement of so many others: “If I had made billions of dollars because I have a unique understanding of how the economy works, I’m going to keep it to myself.”6 Rose, like
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