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When it comes to leadership development and business growth, more and more leaders and entrepreneurs are trying to achieve their growth goals by looking for “out of the box” opportunities.
According to McKinsey & Company, “About a quarter of companies do not grow at all, and between 2010 and 2019, only one in eight achieved revenue growth of more than 10% annually.” Profitable growth thus occurs when leaders can quickly adapt, shift, move and adapt to new ideas and mindsets when building a business from the ground up.
Check out these new publications that offer a new way of thinking about leadership, innovation and growth.
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1. Mastering Microdosing: How To Use Subperceptual Psychedelics To Heal Trauma, Enhance Performance, And Transform Your Life by Paul Austin
In his latest bookPaul Austin takes a comprehensive look at using subperceptual psychedelics to address mental health and wellness needs, discover innovative business ideas, and find out-of-the-box solutions to team performance problems.
To ensure practice safety, Austin provides a comprehensive guide to the practice, protocols, benefits, and potential harms of microdosing.
While this may seem like a wild idea to some, Austin’s approach contains a wealth of research and anecdotes to demonstrate the effectiveness and positive impact that subperceptual psychedelics can have on the general well-being of today’s entrepreneurs, leaders, creative minds and healers . – and he’s not alone.
In 2022, the MIT Sloan Management Review offered an investigation into the increasingly prevalent practice of corporate executives using psychedelic drugs and therapies to address mental health and illness. This includes the practice of taking small amounts (a “microdose”) of psychedelic drugs that can include lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), psilocybin mushrooms, and other common psychoactive substances that alter your perceptions, thoughts, and emotions of the world and ideas influence all around. You.
Such studies have further modernized the idea of how we address mental health and well-being, including in terms of driving the growth of safe and inclusive work cultures. In 2022, the American Psychological Association (APA) introduced a Survey Work and Welfare which found that 71% of employees “believe their employer is more concerned about employee mental health now than they were in the past.” This belief in itself has the ability to improve individual and team performance for a company.
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2. DEO’s financial secrets to grow dental organizations by Ken and Ashley Kaufman
In this book, Ken and Ashley Kaufman share their insight into the best financial tools and best practices dental entrepreneurs can use to succeed as business leaders.
The authors recognize that many of the common challenges entrepreneurs face during the startup process are related to common financial pitfalls. This includes everything from the location of your business to local tax rules and operating costs to financing strategies.
To help business owners identify these common mistakes, errors, pitfalls, and pitfalls, the authors aim to empower business leaders to take charge of their businesses and find financial success. As a result of this growth in financial leadership, entrepreneurs can find greater clarity in their work so they can focus more on the people they serve rather than worrying about financial business issues.
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3. Innovating Innovation!: Why Business Innovation Struggles in the Age of the businessroundups.org by Mike Stemple
The first year of starting a business is critical to its long-term success. Last year, HubSpot found that at least 90% of startups fail within the first year, with another 10% failing before the following year. Still, according to Mike Stemple in his new bookmore startups are successful in driving innovation compared to their large corporate counterparts.
Entrepreneurs can learn a lot from business leaders. And the top question business leaders are asking is, “What can big companies do to innovate as easily as their disruptive startup competitors?”
The purpose of Innovative innovation! is to help prevent businesses from going out of business and continue to see growth throughout their maturity. Mike supports leaders who want to transform their company’s sense of innovation by understanding today’s building blocks needed and how to effectively execute a modern innovation program.
As a result, readers finish the book and understand how to catch up in their industry and find the same fast-to-market innovations that new start-ups are using to disrupt entire industries.
If you’re looking to foster an innovative culture, become more financially literate in your new business venture, or focus more on mental health and wellness, these new books can help.
