(2025) Leading Outside Your Comfort Zone: The Surprising Psychology of Resilience, Growth, and We...

The book, Leading Outside Your Comfort Zone: The Surprising Psychology of Resilience, Growth, and Well-Being, is by D. Christopher Kayes. It is a leadership and management book published in 2025.
This book provides a framework for leaders to learn and grow from experience when facing adversity. It focuses on resilience, growth, and well-being as necessary components for leaders and their teams. It challenges traditional leadership models and myths, and it presents strategies for overcoming challenges, cultivating a learning mindset, and managing emotions. The book emphasizes the importance of moving outside of one's comfort zone to awaken a natural desire to learn. It also stresses the need for leaders to focus on their own well-being, and the well-being of their employees.
The book is divided into three sections:
• Section 1 focuses on the foundations of leading outside your comfort zone. It addresses the challenges of leading in a complex world [5] and introduces concepts such as resilience, and learning.
• Section 2 explains the fundamental processes of cultivating novel experiences, accepting unpleasant emotions, implementing learning strategies, and motivating oneself to learn.
• Section 3 applies the insights from the previous sections to situations such as keeping focused, leading teams and organizations, and goal setting. The book also provides tools, pathways, and strategies to help leaders with common leadership challenges, and it contains various exercises and questionnaires to help with self-reflection and development.
#LeadingOutsideYourComfortZone, #ResilienceLeadership, #GrowthMindset, #WellBeingAtWork, #EmotionalLeadership, #LearningToLead, #TeamLeadership, #FocusAndProductivity, #TieredGoalSetting, #LeadershipDevelopment, #DChristopherKayes, #ComfortZoneGrowth