ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses how to prepare and lead one's mind toward success in an evolutionary way. In Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, Stanford University researcher Carol Dweck writes that mindsets are powerful drivers of perceptions about self and others as well as one's capabilities and place in the world. A recent series of studies led by Heslin, who leads the EMBA Managerial Skills course at the Australian Graduate School of Management, considered the implications of fixed mindsets and how they can be changed. His research delved deeper into employee reactions including demoralization, disengagement, absenteeism, and turnover, and a sense that they are not being given a fair go by their manager. In a series of studies published in 2005, a collaboration among Heslin, Gary Latham from the University of Toronto, and Don VandeWalle of Southern Methodist University found that a fixed mindset blinded managers to variation above or below an employee's initial performance level.
