Centered Leadership

In Joanna Barsh and Susie Cranston's new book How Remarkable Women Lead, they break down a new model of leadership based on 5 years of research conducted during their Centered Leadership Project. Joanna sums up their system in five dimensions:

Meaning: Happiness, core strengths, and purpose

Framing: Self-awareness, learned optimism, moving on, adaptability

Connecting: Inclusiveness, reciprocity, network design, and sponsorship

Engaging: Voice, ownership, opportunities, risks, fears

Energizing: Sources and uses, recovery, and flow

If you add these items to their defined preconditions for successful leadership (talent, desire to lead, and tolerance for change), as well as factor in your personal and professional context, you should be left with the outcomes of impact, renewal, and joy.

Book It to Book Club

As YWTF-Atlanta prepares for the new year and a new round of book club, let’s spend some time learning about food as it relates to the environment. Watch Mark Bittman on what’s wrong with what we eat. Stay tuned for 2011's book list, including Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food. Comment and let us know what you would like the chapter to read this year!