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This book is written to support you when you find yourself in a leadership position—at home, among friends or family, on the road, or at work. No matter the context, becoming a better leader requires you to learn to care for humanity in constructive ways. If not, that same humanity can make your leadership destructive rather than constructive, leading to a loss for everyone. Therefore, get to know the underlying power dynamics within authority relationships and understand how your relationship with your humanity can make or break you and your team.
The Human Side of Leadership lovingly guides you through an inner process toward a deeper understanding of and care for your qualities, shortcomings, and blind spots as a human leader. In a clear and accessible way, it helps you identify destructive patterns, clarifies why they are ineffective, and shows constructive ways to take accountability for your humanity.
Developing human leadership skills allows you to move from feeling stretched thin and exhausted to building a healthy, balanced relationship with yourself and others from the inside out. Taking better care of your own humanity and others’ not only improves your leadership skills, making daily management flow more naturally and effectively, but also helps you achieve a higher level of quality and well-being for yourself and others. Isn’t that what leadership should be all about?
About the author
As a psychologist, sociologist, and European Certified Psychotherapist, Wendy van Mieghem unravels the psychology of human nature in a clear and accessible way. The books, online training courses, online community, and guidance she provides support you on an inner journey toward sustainable recovery, growth, change, and human-centered leadership.
The Human Side of Leadership
Wendy van Mieghem

