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A reflective practice to help improve your performance as a manager

A study suggests prospective leaders should spend a few minutes a day pondering their potential.
by Stephen Jones
If success in business came through the power of imagination alone the world would be overrun with cohorts of Amazon-like giants. The process of turning an idea into reality requires more than vision; it involves steadfast determination, organisation, luck and usually a lot of hard work too.
But that doesn’t mean that positive thinking or even reflection is meaningless. In fact when it comes to leadership, musing about the type of leader that you want to be can make you a better boss, according to a recent paper. ....

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"'Don't let anyone bring me down again': applying 'possible selves' to " by Janine Delahunty and Sarah O'Shea

Abstract
This article applies the framework of possible selves to the motivation and persistence behaviours of one group of university students. We draw on possible selves to consider how particular goal-focused actions and life experiences may significantly shape movements towards imagined futures. Utilising a narrative approach from longitudinal data, this article considers the ways in which possible selves were articulated by five first-in-family students, all of whom were mature-aged women returning to formal learning. A series of vignettes enabled us to explore how students themselves conceived of this movement into university, and how hoped-for selves were considered and enacted (or not). The ways in which societal expectations and expected life trajectories impact (re)conceptualisation of ‘selves’ are discussed, particularly when individuals choose an unexpected or non-normative life course. ....

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