It is absolutely imperative to strong and progressive leadership to understand the difference between open mindsets and fixed mindsets.
The most successful leaders are focused on growing their skills, their approaches to business and problem solving, and their teams. This growth mindset is based on the belief that the basic qualities that we have can continuously be cultivated to move us forward and add to our bank of skills.
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I love this example. And I think the pandemic really shed a light on those who had one mindset or the other. My favorite example is that of the chef Daniel Humm of the chic NY restaurant Eleven Madison. He knew, when the pandemic set in, nobody was giving a hoot about his lavendar duck recipe. He took his job as a soldier in the hospitality industry seriously. He wanted to serve. So he turned the Michelin 3-star restaurant into a commissary kitchen and began serving 5,000 meals daily
2. What are some of the experiences in our workplace that illustrate how this difference in mindsets can impact progress and change in our current working environment?
Here is a story about a letter Thomas Edison brought home from school, that illustrates this point;
"One day Thomas Edison came home and gave a paper to his mother. He told her, "My teacher gave this paper to me and told me to only give it to my mother."
His mother’s eyes were tearful as she read the letter out loud to her child: Your son is a genius. This school is too small for him and doesn’t have enough good teachers for training him. Please teach him yourself.
Many years later, after Edison’s mother had died, he was looking through old family things. Now one of the greatest inventors of the century, he suddenly saw a folded piece of paper in the corner of a desk drawer. He took it and opened it up. On the paper was written: Your son is addled [mentally ill]. We won’t let him come to school any more.
Edison cried for hours and then he wrote in his diary: “Thomas Alva Edison was an addled child that, by a hero mother, became the genius of the century.”
I love this nature versus nurture example. Growing up, I was raised in a household where there was alot of messages about money. Money was for 'others' but not for us. So anytime, I would see that so
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