Nicolai Chen Nielsen

Nicolai Tillisch

How do you increase the speed and probability of success--given your ambitions? How do you live an enjoyable and fulfilling life? Most ambitious people strive in at least one of these regards. Return on Ambition gives you a holistic and practical model for thriving with both success and fulfillment. ​Return on Ambition is itself the result of an ambitious effort to harness insights from recent research in cognitive psychology and neuroscience, and it recommends simple, yet powerful, practices including the following-- - The 3 Truisms of Return on Ambition: aspects of an ambitious life that you must understand and accept to live with less regret. - The 4 Premises of Ambition: dimensions that help you contemplate what your unique, personal ambition is. - The Return on Ambition Self-Assessment: indicative measures of how well you are currently getting the return that you could. - The Interdependencies among Achievement, Growth, and Well-Being: research and wisdom show that compromises in any of the three elements will cause declines in the others over time. - The 7 Frenemies: descriptions of personal attributes that are your core strengths as the ambitious person you are, but that are also the biggest obstacles to your success and fulfillment in life. - The Return on Ambition Toolbox: 4 tools that will help you articulate and pursue your ambition, expand your self-awareness, and help you learn consciously. - 4 Self-Coaching Sessions: instructions for 30-60 minute contemplations stimulated by eye-opening questions. Authors Nielsen and Tillisch are insiders in the world of grand ambitions, which helps them to understand and take the perspective of their readers. Nicolai Chen Nielsen is an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company, where he advises clients on leadership development, culture change, and agile transformations. He is the co-author of Leadership at Scale and has published several articles on personal development. He is currently based in New York with his wife Samira and their two dogs, Napoleon and Caesar. Nicolai Tillisch is a part of Cultivating Leadership, the global coaching firm, and a co-founder of Deliberate Development, the venture behind the Daily Goals software solution. He has been a consultant with McKinsey & Company and was an executive with DDB Worldwide, Hutchison, and Nokia Siemens Networks. Nicolai lives with his wife Ida and their children, Margaux and Axel, in Dubai.

A Radical Approach to Your Achievement, Growth, and Well-Being

Return on Ambition

Lars Tvede

“A compact, insightful, and practical guide for leaders and managers to flourish in our coming Exponential Age” —Azeem Azhar, founder, Exponential View In 1798, the influential cleric, scholar, and economist Thomas Malthus predicted that the world would soon run out of food, as linear food production growth would be unable to feed the exponentially growing population. Fast forward 200 years, and the world's population has grown almost 10 times, and we are closer to colonizing Mars than we ever will be to running out of food. The reason? Innovation. Innovation driven by mass digitization and the convergence of exponentially growing technologies. We know that exponential laws often follow predictable patterns, and this allows us to predict when futuristic applications will become possible and economically feasible. In From Malthus to Mars, Nicolai Chen Nielsen and Lars Tvede outline the wild future that we are speeding into. Wild, among other things, in terms of anti-ageing, compact farming, robotics, radically new energy solutions, and a fast, fluid, and flexible world of work. The authors map concrete forecasts for when upcoming technologies will break through and change our world, and they paint a picture of what the future in the coming years will look like. We will learn that while the future is destined to bring a multitude of new opportunities and enhanced abundance, it will also bring increased demands for us as individuals and as organizations. To equip us to thrive in the future, Nielsen and Tvede outline eight key mindsets. These mindsets will help us navigate future trends, reach our most desired future, and give us the ability, as we understand trends, to apply exponentiality and make decisions under uncertainty. The authors also present ten shifts that winning organizations of the future must consider in order to transform themselves and their industries, again and again. ​Between them, Nielsen and Tvede have founded/co-founded 13 companies, advised more than 30 Fortune 500 companies, developed thousands of leaders, and published 20 books.

How to Live, Lead, and Learn in an Exponential World

From Malthus to Mars

Claudio Feser

Michael Rennie

Traditional approaches to leadership development focus on a small number of individuals at the top. However, in today's world of constant change and decentralized decision-making, organizations need effective leaders at all levels of their organizations. That requires a much broader and deeper pool of leadership talent, and most organizations fall far short of what they need. Leadership at Scale defines a new approach. In it, top experts at McKinsey, the world's number one leadership factory, expose the secrets of how to drive leadership development that reaches the entire organization, adapts to diverse contexts and achieves impact at scale. Grounded in extensive research and the global experience of +25 leadership experts and illustrated with a fictional step-by-step case with numerous real-life examples, this book provides leaders with the systematic and fact-based approach they need to unlock organizational performance through leadership effectiveness.

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