Book Erudition..!!
Title: CARE to Win
{The 4 Leadership Habits to Build High-Performing Teams}
Author: Alex Draper
Pages: 275
Genre: Non-Fiction
Publication date: 21 June 2024
Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
About Author..!!
Alex began his professional journey as a trainee schoolteacher in the UK. His career took a significant turn in 2002 when he transitioned into adult education, joining a leading global management training organization. His expertise and dedication led him to Chicago in 2005, where he was instrumental in establishing and heading the company’s American operations.
In Chicago, Alex discovered his true calling: fostering leadership capabilities focused on emotional intelligence (EQ) rather than solely on intellectual quotient (IQ). This revelation paved the way for his entrepreneurial venture in 2015 with the launch of his organization, DX Learning (DX).
Beyond his professional achievements, Alex remains committed to being a people-first leader, not just in the corporate sphere but also in his personal life. This balance of professional acumen and personal empathy encapsulates his approach to leadership and organizational development.
Book Description..!!
Today, most employees stay or leave an organization because of their direct manager. Are team members provided what they need to be their best self and do their best work, or is it withheld by someone above them? Are their managers fulfilling the role of a people-first leader? Does company leadership make the working environment a psychologically safe space that maximizes both human and business performance? Some do, most don’t—only because most aren’t trained to.
But how do leaders build high-performing, psychologically safe teams?
CARE to Win is the much-needed modern and relevant guide for managers, their employees, and organizations. It outlines the importance of each CARE component and breaks down internal biases that keep leaders from CAREing to the fullest. Through personal stories, research, and exercises, Alex shows that when leaders CARE, everyone wins—because CARE is the human skill that gets the hard stuff done.
Become the leader that sets your team up to win. Every. Single. Day..!!
What does this book offer..!?!
The book starts with a note ‘High-performing teams need high-performing leaders in order to win“. With tons of books that spoke about the leadership available in the market, Alex Draper’s CARE to Win is a GAME CHANGER. To transform your personal and professional connections, this book is a trailblazer. Being in a world that produces multitudinous leaders, books like these are definitive guides to enrich the knowledge of persuasiveness.
Witnessing a bunch of leaders and driving them towards successful leadership and being the founder of a leading learning firm author curates a step-by-step CARE approach to achieve the goals plus giving a customary changeover. Alex Draper’s hand holds the readers’ attention to the peregrination of proliferation, pensiveness, and evolution.
Book Motif..!?!
CARE is all about Clarity, Autonomy, Relationships, and Equity. Alex offers directives to the readers that help in making paradigm shifts that push the limits and combat the selfish and CAREless brain. He brings in the theory of “Alexamples,” where he delineates piles of use cases with the CARE-centric approach, which in turn turns out to be life-learnings for the readers.
The author accentuates the need to divorce ego and to bring in an enriched growth mindset, attaining the tag of a self-aware leader equipped with self-preservation instinct and to lead the team effectively. The crux of the book lies in edifying the CARE strategy, fostering psychological practices that march the team towards paramount success.
My take..!!!
Clarity: A prime ingredient to cook the dish of success. A factor that removes the ambiguity and mitigates the fear can remove the brain obstacles to outperform. Clarity goes hand in hand with effective communication practices that are capable of bringing the elite leadership ability and to serve a sense of certainty.
Autonomy: Autonomy transliterates to trusting your team to do what needs to be done. An element that works closely with clarity. Autonomy conceptualizes team independence to outperform with cognitive ease and freedom to produce in a cozy and relaxant environment.
Relationships: Leading is about connecting, Interconnecting Every unique human under the warmth of relationships is an integral part of team success. Indeed, relationships are bridges ensuring the individual’s psychological safety and developing the sense of inclusion and possession to make the team WIN.
Equity: An essential aspect in unfolding the equality among the team that not only brings balance but also remediates psychological safety. This is a secret ingredient in garnishing the success of the team by inducing symmetrical team ethos.
My Pick..!!
Alex’s splendor is quite evident via flawless writing amalgamated with the theories, practices, metrics, Alexamples, life lessons, and so on, which are key takeaways to every reader who is ambitious of becoming a great leader. This book is a testament to ensuring psychological safety and a hassle-free environment to bring out the best in yourself and the team you lead. Not to miss mentioning the communicative illustrations that went hand in hand with the book motif.
Conclusion..!!
CARE is an applicative procedure that can guide leaders in marching toward success. This is a cognitive guide that readers can use to congregate the missing dregs and understand the imbalances, fixing those to achieve the desired outcomes.
Book Quote(s)..!!
- Listening is the secret sauce of Relationships
- Expectation is the main cause of your stress.
- Ego is the death of good leadership.
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