Reclaiming Our Humanity in the Workplace - Paperback

by Eleni Pallas (Author), Shadi Abouzeid (Author)

What if everything you've been taught about leadership is the very thing holding you and your team back? For decades, visionary leaders and teams have poured energy into building new skills and launching change initiatives, yet the same problems persist. Why? When stress and overwhelm take over, even our best skills go offline. Until we address the underlying context and mindset, no amount of training can create lasting change. Reclaiming Our Humanity in the Workplace reveals how inherited mindsets and workplace structures keep us trapped in survival mode, blocking our ability to access what we already know, even when we're striving for more. Human-Centric Leading (HCL) offers a bold alternative. Grounded in a whole-human mindset and five transformative tools, Mindsets, Context, Needs, Wisdom, and Emotions, HCL equips leaders to respond deliberately instead of react habitually and design workplaces where people thrive. Through real stories and perspective-shifting insights, you'll discover: - Why popular fixes such as Lean, Six Sigma, new operating models, and emotional intelligence training miss the mark. - How outdated assumptions drive many of the actions and outcomes we say we don't want. - How to break free from default thinking without sacrificing excellence. - How to cultivate cultures that build trust, creativity, and sustainable performance aligned with Mother Nature. Now is the time to reclaim your power, work with others more effectively, and create a future that meets the challenges of our times with ingenuity and in harmony with nature. The future of work won't be shaped by the systems we inherited, but by the mindsets we choose to lead with and the contexts we design - starting now.