Each week, I compile the resources related to leadership, personal growth, and professional development that I shared on social media the prior week, with the accompanying quotations.
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Cathleen G Beachboard:
“The Secret to Success Wasn’t Hidden—It Was Just Overlooked”
(7-29-26).
“According to Snyder’s research on hope, it is built on two mental habits: believing you can reach your goals and believing you can find another way when obstacles appear. The stronger those habits become, the more likely you are to keep moving toward the future you want.”
Learn more about the late Rick Snyder’s hope theory here:
“Hope Theory: How Pathways Thinking Can Help Your Clients”
(10-15-25). Jeremy Sutton.
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American Psychological Association:
“Speaking of Psychology: How to motivate yourself and others, with Wendy Grolnick, PhD, and Frank Worrell, PhD”
(Podcast, Episode 290, hosted by Kim Mills, June 2024).
“[I]f we create an environment where people feel like they are the owner of their actions, … that helps them to feel effective, … that helps them to feel connected to the people around them, those are going to be the conditions under which people will be the most motivated.”
See also:
“Self-determination theory: A quarter century of human motivation research” (3-2-25).
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Center for Creative Leadership:
“Better Culture Starts With Compassionate Leadership” (2-10-24).
“Ultimately, compassionate leadership changes an entire organization’s culture, yielding greater cooperation and grace for all.”
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Ravin Jesuthasan:
“Your future workforce already works for you” (8-7-26).
“With focused reskilling and deliberate on-the-job learning, today’s employees become tomorrow’s advantage. You preserve institutional knowledge while accelerating productivity and innovation.
The firms that will thrive are the ones that treat their workforce as a portfolio of skills to be cultivated and thoughtfully deployed alongside AI. Make the deliberate investment now, and you’ll avoid the far greater cost of rebuilding critical capabilities later.”
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Joel Wong:
“Misreading Success: Life’s Most Underrated Virtue” (4-5-26).
“The idea that humble people are nice but unsuccessful is a myth. Research on leadership shows that humble leaders produce better organizational outcomes, such as better task performance among employees. Humble leaders admit mistakes, prioritize others’ needs, and avoid drawing excessive attention to themselves, which earns trust.”
