Abundance Leaders: Creating Energy, Joy, and Productivity in an Unsettled World

We have all heard of the idea that our perception creates our reality, but how many of us understand what that really means or, more importantly, put it into practice? In times of scarcity, leaders are tempted to echo society's often negative, fear-based messaging, falling into step with the notion that we do not have the power to make things better. Abundance Leaders turns this tendency on its head, showing that organizations have great power in driving culture and determining daily reality. When leaders project energy, joy, productivity, and optimism, they create abundance. Sounds simple but it takes intention and practice.

What makes some leaders better at leading from abundance than others? It all starts with a mindset. Author and leading management consultant Laura Freebairn-Smith calls this mindset the abundance mental model. When we learn to see resources as sufficient and non-zero-sum power dynamics, we create healthier, more equitable organizations. In this book, readers learn how to build communication, teamwork, and energy into the fabric of their organization by adopting the 26 specific behaviors that constitute abundance leadership.

There are dozens if not hundreds of leadership models in print today, but not one has adequately captured what truly makes a great boss. Abundance Leaders finally offers a new model, along with a set of research-based principles for adopting it. This new concept in leadership is poised to transform the way we view organizational culture, strategy, and change. This book reveals that true leadership greatness does not lie in the broad strokes and huge undertakings that we often associate with it. Instead, It is the small, daily acts and minor adjustments that inspire employees and bring visions to life.

我們都聽過「我們的觀念創造了我們的現實」這個概念，但有多少人真正理解它的意義，或更重要的是，將其付諸實踐呢？在資源匱乏的時候，領導者往往會受到社會常常帶有負面、基於恐懼的信息的影響，陷入認為我們無法改善情況的觀念中。《豐盛領導者》顛覆了這種趨勢，展示了組織在塑造文化和確定日常現實方面的巨大力量。當領導者展現出能量、喜悅、生產力和樂觀時，他們創造了豐盛。聽起來很簡單，但需要有意識地去實踐。

是什麼使一些領導者在從豐盛中領導方面比其他人更出色呢？一切都始於一種心態。作者兼領先的管理顧問Laura Freebairn-Smith稱這種心態為豐盛心智模式。當我們學會將資源視為充足的、非零和的權力動態時，我們創造了更健康、更公平的組織。在這本書中，讀者將學習如何通過採用構成豐盛領導的26種具體行為，將溝通、團隊合作和能量融入組織的結構中。

如今，印刷品上有數十甚至數百種領導模式，但沒有一種能夠充分捕捉到真正偉大的老闆的特質。《豐盛領導者》終於提供了一種新模式，以及一套基於研究的原則來採用這種模式。這種新的領導概念有望改變我們對組織文化、戰略和變革的看法。這本書揭示了真正的領導偉大不在於我們通常所認為的大刀闊斧的行動和巨大的事業。相反，它是那些小小的、日常的行為和微小的調整，激勵員工並將願景變為現實。

LAURA FREEBAIRN-SMITH is a Partner and Co-founder of Organizational Performance Group (OPG), a management consulting firm. She holds an MBA from Yale and a PhD in Organizational Systems from Saybrook University. She has taught as faculty and guest lecturer at Yale, Georgetown, Central CT State University, and the University of New Haven.

LAURA FREEBAIRN-SMITH 是組織績效集團（Organizational Performance Group，簡稱OPG）的合夥人和共同創辦人，該公司是一家管理咨詢公司。她擁有耶魯大學的工商管理碩士學位和Saybrook大學的組織系統博士學位。她曾在耶魯大學、喬治城大學、中央康涅狄格州立大學和紐黑文大學擔任教職和客座講師。