The Outward Mindset

How to Change Lives and Transform Organizations

By: The Arbinger Institute

Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith

Without even being aware of it, many of us operate from an inward mindset, a single-minded focus on our own goals and objectives. This book points out the many ways, some quite subtle and deceptive, that this mindset invites tension and conflict. But incredible things happen when people switch to an outward mindset. They intuitively understand what coworkers, colleagues, family, and friends need to be successful and happy. Their organizations thrive, and astonishingly, by focusing on others they become happier and more successful themselves! This new mindset brings about deep and far-reaching changes.

The Outward Mindset presents compelling true stories to illustrate the gaps that individuals and organizations typically experience between their actual inward mindsets and their needed outward mindsets. And it provides simple yet profound guidance and tools to help bridge this mindset gap. This new edition includes a new preface, updated case studies, and new material covering Arbinger's latest research on mindsets. In the long run, changing negative behavior without changing one's mindset doesn't last—the old behaviors always reassert themselves. But changing the mindset that causes the behavior changes everything.

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Really gets you to think

This is the 3rd book I’ve read from the Arbinger institute and I cannot wait to implement everything I’ve learned in my personal and professional life!

What stood out most is the simplicity of this approach and how you can immediately implement it in your own life.

I enjoyed the fact that this book described a simple philosophy yet it is clear that results are achievable quite easily. I highly recommend this book.